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Aurornisyesterday at 9:34 PM1 replyview on HN

> We can literally write "these laws apply only apply to Facebook and TikTok" into the laws.

I don’t find it useful to imagine laws like this. This isn’t what happens in real law making.

I’m talking about real, actual laws that are getting passed.

It’s not going to be perfectly targeted at websites you don’t use while leaving everything you like free, open, and privacy preserving.

It’s really important that we’re being realistic and honest about this. Inviting bad laws into the internet with fantasies about how they’ll be carefully scoped and limited to other websites is not realistic.


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Marsymarsyesterday at 10:35 PM

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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