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by mrob 123 days ago
Loopholes can be addressed on a case-by-case basis. A solution being imperfect is not a good reason to leave the problem completely unaddressed.
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This by the way is my understanding of why the EU writes laws the way they do.

If they just banned infinite scrolling someone would come up with something equivalent that works slightly differently. Now they need a whole new law. It’s just constant whack-a-mole.

So instead they seem to ban goals. Your thing accomplishes that goal? It’s banned.

It’s a pretty different way than how we seem to do things in the US. But I can see upsides.