Honestly Meta is just plain stupid. These formats are an informal way to avoid strong regulation but solve problems and used in many settings of govermental regulation as a first try. Snubbing them will increase the chance of hard regulation.

I guess Zucki, Meta and SV folks (proofed on HN itself) just drunk too much "EU is declining because of regulation" and it will end like Lightning and Apple.

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skeledrew 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Stupid how? There's nothing regulation-worthy about banning users who aren't in some legally binding contract that'd make the action a breach of terms.

	▲	TheOtherHobbes 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You can't use Meta without agreeing to "some legally binding contract."

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mrits 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The US is moving rapidly away from EU towards Asia. EU acts like they are driving this.

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kaveh_h 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Asia will ignore US deals, especially on social media. Look at Australia are even more hawkish than EU. Japan and South Korea are more culturally close to China when it comes to social harmony and the will probably follow suit when it comes to be strict on social media even if they allow US media it will be by much stricter rules than US.

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snowpid 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

are you sure? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8p61v7l68o

https://asia.nikkei.com/politics/defense/japan-eyes-european...

	▲	riffraff an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Japan is also already in the world's largest free trade agreement with the EU[0] and in a joint development program for a next generation fighter plane with Italy and the UK[1]. The US has squandered a massive amount of goodwill since the first Trump presidency. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93European_Union_C... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Combat_Air_Programme