There is going to be so much wailing and gnashing of teeth when the settlement is made public. So many people are just completely out of touch.

Free advice: When that happens, have a little think about what news sources caused you to wallow in disinformation. Consider that that makes you completely incapable of advocating for your own interests or even understanding where those interests lie.

The complaint is hilarious. So on brand.

I guess they’ll win. It’s going to be interesting to see what happens then.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

The DSA requires people offering apps (“traders”) to provide certain information. For example: address, email, and phone number must be made public. When Apple introduced that, this also caused some outrage and calls for EU regulation. Despite the fact that this was exactly the regulation called for. Hence, why I mentioned that trusted trader scheme.

Google may be legally required to do this. I’m not sure how the DSA is to be interpreted on this. It’s certainly not a stretch (see Article 31). It’s out of touch to believe the EU will push against this.

The Cyber Resilience Act may also have something to do with this.

You mean when they forced Apple to implement the “trusted trader” scheme.

I’d say that European nations have a different understanding of press freedom. Mind that the individual nations have different attitudes toward this.

In Germany, press means mainly newspapers. The publishers owning these papers are very keen on copyright enforcement. Copyright does conflict with freedom of information but, I think, most would not see a conflict with press freedom.

The EU is determined to regulate who is allowed to use data for what purpose and to create the legal tools to enforce that. That’s not limited to copyright. I’m very worried about that trend on many levels.

But I don’t think Yuri creators will face problems in most EU countries in the foreseeable future.