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WhatsApp's interoperability agreement doesn't allow GNU (A|L)GPL licenses
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this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2024
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The recent malicious compliance by Meta and Apple goes to show there's no such thing as "good faith" and the EU is doing a bad job by leaving a bunch of loopholes open.
The EU has done a wonderful job by making the DSA which went into effect yesterday. My personal favorite is up to 10% of global revenue per transgression and 20% for repeat offenses.
That's great if there is in fact a transgression. My guess is there won't be because of said loopholes.
We will see I guess. Feel free to write to your representative. Be the change you want to see.
My representatives are in bed with the corpos. No luck there.
Welp, thats pretty bad. Since I get defeatist thoughts when I watch the news, I block them wherever I can, go protest, write complaints, vote and so on. Thats all that I think can be asked of me so I‘ll just go on doing that until morale improves.
@haui_lemmy @helenslunch The EU generally has the right idea but is often pretty bad at writing « ironclad » laws. I’m pretty sure most of the people writing these texts have very little experience in tech, and they tend to leave gaping holes that big tech companies are quick to exploit.
Still, in general, they’re doing a solid job at curbing the power and abuses of these companies. It just takes longer than it should to patch the holes!
I agree. Feel free to write a letter to your representative and either offer help with it or tell them how to do it. Be the change you want to see. :)