• Ulrich@feddit.org
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    5 hours ago

    It’s too bad they were too terrible at writing legislation to be successful.

    • cabbage@piefed.social
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      4 hours ago

      What exactly do you mean?

      Sure, nothing is perfect, but EU legislation has generally been quite good, from the GDPR to the DMA.

      The challenges are more related to enforcement - rules on the book are worth nothing if we don’t force companies to live by them. In this respect we’ve seen some pretty sloppy behaviour, but also some victories. It’s not a one-sided story.

      Another challenge is of course to keep passing good laws, and to avoid terrible ones. Chat control needs to be stopped. Stopping it is a matter of convincing national governments it’s a bad idea, as well as members of the European Parliament - everyone should be writing their representatives NOW. But that’s another issue entirely. :)

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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        4 hours ago

        don’t iphones delete your sideloaded apps against your will and along with your data, if you don’t use the ibstaller tool at once every week?

        if so that’s useless for anybody other than developers themselves who otherwise don’t even want to use their own app.

        • cabbage@piefed.social
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          3 hours ago

          I have no idea as I don’t follow apple much, but I am aware that they are constantly trying to find ways to avoid complying with EU law, and that it is often rapidly struck down.

          What you’re describing here is not a failure of the law, but Apple trying real hard to find creative ways not to comply with it. To me it only shows that they are desperate, and that EU law is in fact getting to them.

          If they keep at it it’ll eventually end up in court, the case will take a couple of years, and they’ll be slammed with a fine and asked to get their shit together.