hedge to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 5 months agoThe EU’s tough new moderation rules are about to cover a lot more of the internet.www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down10
arrow-up175arrow-down1external-linkThe EU’s tough new moderation rules are about to cover a lot more of the internet.www.theverge.comhedge to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 5 months agomessage-square17fedilink
minus-square@blindsight@beehaw.orglinkfedilink4•5 months agoYeah, exactly. 10MM is peanuts to huge tech companies. It’s not reasonable to split up services in a way that would still be profitable. The Fediverse would likely be exempt, but any social media with advertising and any scale at all will hit 10MM revenue pretty quickly.
minus-squarefrog 🐸linkfedilinkEnglish4•5 months agoYeah, I think the fact that the Fediverse is genuinely and legitmately multiple small websites, each of which can be proven to be run by different people with no connection to each other, would mean it’s exempt.
minus-squareDosDude👾linkfedilink2•5 months agoWell, most are run by 1 person or a small team. None have profits. Some have donation pages, and that’s it. So they are exempt by definition.
Yeah, exactly. 10MM is peanuts to huge tech companies. It’s not reasonable to split up services in a way that would still be profitable.
The Fediverse would likely be exempt, but any social media with advertising and any scale at all will hit 10MM revenue pretty quickly.
Yeah, I think the fact that the Fediverse is genuinely and legitmately multiple small websites, each of which can be proven to be run by different people with no connection to each other, would mean it’s exempt.
Well, most are run by 1 person or a small team. None have profits. Some have donation pages, and that’s it. So they are exempt by definition.