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Re:Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-bac... by hodgesrm on Monday January 19, 2026 @10:10AM (#46679847)
This is a great comment. At the same time GDPR and other standards do not address practical issues that (arguably) cause real harm like including features to generate undressed images of women and children.

It's the same dynamic that has warped the California housing market by adding a forest of regulations that make it almost impossible to build new housing. Those regulations for the most part add nothing but cost and time to projects. Meanwhile housing prices go through the roof.

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Re:Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-bac... by amarcheschi on Monday January 19, 2026 @10:46AM (#46680243)
i'd argue that, at least in my european country, there already more severe laws regulating such thing that might earn you jail time, while gdpr wasn't made with that in mind
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Re:Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-bac... by hodgesrm on Monday January 19, 2026 @01:37PM (#46682760)
The problem is enforcing those laws now the Trump administration is using X and other social networks as instruments of national policy and forcing others to use them, to the detriment (potentially considerable) of European societies.
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