Oz Zeren
1 min readSep 10, 2024

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The well-intentioned attempts to improve things have been turned into regulatory moat-building and safe political career paths in Europe. It even caused US-style corruption in the form of various private interests pushing laws that they would profit from - like in the case of chat spying pushed by the 'foundation' of Ashton Kutcher, who had a spying software to sell. That was narrowly thwarted. But the digital resilience act was not. Despite the effort of the Open Source community to improve the law, it ended up passing as a law that can easily cripple Open Source development and small private developers to the benefit of large enterprises that can pay the arbitrary fines. (the fine amounts are interpreted by the judge). Now that a few previous laws like these have been pushed out, there are even more on the line. Even the chat-spying law was temporarily pulled back.

So, watch out what you are asking for...

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Oz Zeren
Oz Zeren

Written by Oz Zeren

Writing for a better future. I work in Tech. I like Philosophy, History, Computers, Gaming, the Internet. I’m excited about the Creator Economy, Web 3.0, DAOs.

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