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Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement

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324 points rntn | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 17:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.401s | source
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rockemsockem ◴[18 Jul 25 18:41 UTC] No.44608323[source]▶
I'm surprised that most of the comments here are siding with Europe blindly?

Am I the only one who assumes by default that European regulation will be heavy-handed and ill conceived?

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9dev ◴[18 Jul 25 18:44 UTC] No.44608348[source]▶
Maybe the others have put in a little more effort to understand the regulation before blindly criticising it? Similar to the GDPR, a lot of it is just common sense—if you don’t think that "the market" as represented by global mega-corps will just sort it out, that is.
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ars ◴[18 Jul 25 19:00 UTC] No.44608521[source]▶
> GDPR

You mean that thing (or is that another law?) that forces me to find that "I really don't care in the slightest" button about cookies on every single page?

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1. sensanaty ◴[19 Jul 25 08:06 UTC] No.44613531[source]▶
No, GDPR is the law that allowed me to successfully request the deletion of everything companies like Meta have ever harvested on me without my consent and for them to permanently delete it.

Fun fact, GitHub doesn't have cookie banners. It's almost like it's possible to run a huge site without being a parasite and harvesting every iota of data of your site's visitors!