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Re:The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling by gunapologist99 on Saturday February 14, 2026 @08:08AM (#47014259)
Swiping is addictive, but touching a button for the next page is not.

One is arbitrarily banned by unelected bureaucrats. The other is fine.

We blame social companies for failing to raise our children the way we think they should.

Re:The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling by kvdveer on Saturday February 14, 2026 @08:15AM (#47014303)
Infinitief scrolling is only mentioned in the title. The actual legislation focuses on addictive patterns of which infinite scroll is just one. The exact formulation will of course matter a lot, but it will not simply be banning infinite scroll, as that would be trivial to circumvent.
Re:The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling by gunapologist99 on Saturday February 14, 2026 @08:25AM (#47014355)
Fair point, but such regulatory ambiguity in the U.S. would likely be unconstitutionally vague:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagueness_doctrine#Unconstitut...

The article reads as if the EC chose one or a few apps that they didn't like, and then wrote a regulation based on that app's key features.