alt Hacker NewsThis legislation has high costs and while it seems fair to impose them on the Apples and Googles of the world, this gets weirder with smaller services that might have trouble complying. My podcast player, Overcast (overcast.fm), is one guy. Should he be subject to this? It seems like that business might not be able to exist if he was.
You could do a revenue threshold or something but seems tricky.
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> You could do a revenue threshold or something but seems tricky.
That's what countries regulating this tend to do (often user count instead of revenue thresholds, but similar).
It also makes sense, because if the podcast guy bans you, you can pick a different podcast player or just not listen to podcasts. If both Google and Apple ban you, you're also effectively debanked because you can't use their app stores to install the banking authenticator app that is required to use online banking, possibly excluded from using public transit, etc.
The business size doesn't matter. Bake it into the business' books and charge what it takes to manage it. If you can't, your business isn't viable. If you can, it doesn't matter if you're 1 person, 100 people, or 1 million people.