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by Marsymars 19 days ago
The DMA designated gatekeepers seems to be pretty well-targeted as a real law that's currently on the books.

It applies solely to Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft.

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Going by that list, YouTube and GitHub would be impacted. They have social features and primarily host user-generated content.

Imagining that these laws will be precisely written to avoid any services you like is a dangerous fallacy. That's how people rationalize bad laws.

Remember when all of the surveillance laws were only going to target the terrorists? Look how far that drifted.