EU's New Digital Proposal Is Good for Users, Not for Profits

EU's New Digital Proposal Is Good for Users, Not for Profits(theprecondition.com)

3 points by zc4242 4 years ago | 4 comments

2Gkashmiri 4 years ago |

i am hopeful i can finally stay on matrix while get people who cannot be bothered to leave whatsapp to talk to me.

would it be like how we currently send emails? like i don't know if exampl34@gmail.com exists but i still send it. if it does exist, it is delivered otherwise i am told no result.

any idea when we can start to see fruits of this interoperability?

zc4242 4 years ago | |

Statement from Council of the EU:

"The regulation must be implemented within six months after its entry into force."[1]

[1] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022...

2Gkashmiri 4 years ago | | |

awesome. so, i have a question. does this interoperability mean say unless india implements a similar directive, these companies are only going to comply if you are in EU or they will let the option open for everyone?

ZeroGravitas 4 years ago |

Sounds good, though previous EU initiatives have been blunted by lobbying and non-compliance. Possibly China's recent moves in similar directions will make it more obvious when the EU backslides. Maybe one day soon the US will join them and a new dawn of technological capitalism based on multiple competing services trying to meet user needs rather than achieve network lock-in will arise.

It's kind of interesting to imagine what could have been if so much human effort hadn't been poured into trapping people into walled gardens.