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by sylware 974 days ago
Instead of trying to outlaw encryption, they should stick to Big Tech regulation as the road is still long there.

For instance, significant web sites must have a functionning noscript/basic (x)html portal where reasonable (and you can browse maps more than ok with noscript/basic (x)html browsers). Just think semantic 2D simple HTML documents (tables are not harmful), and the table "rules" are semantic information in a 2D documents. And when I say "semantic", it is not that abomination of "semantic" web from a decade ago.
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red_admiral 974 days ago
Respecting the do-not-track header would also be a start.
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Nextgrid 974 days ago
Just enforcing the existing GDPR would be a very good start. Right now enforcement is severely lacking and actually asserting your privacy rights when fobbed off by big tech is near-impossible as the vast majority of complaints to the regulator remain in limbo for years.
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sylware 974 days ago
I tend to believe the "GDPR" is targetted by Big Tech lobbyists, to trap as many administrative online services on software/protocol they control.

(open source software control is achieved via absurd and grotesque size and complexity, and often the control of the upstream source repository).

Small Tech with as many alternatives as possible is the only way out of this. Don't be fooled.

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