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• ironsoap@lemmy.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t think this requires an act of congress. I think you might see more consumer advocation on the part of FTC (although it doesn’t currently regulate online broadcast), or potentially the CFPB.

  Admittedly it’s more likely to see the EU do some regulations, but it all depends on the election.

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  • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think it needs regulation, the whole streaming industry needs to be regulated! It can’t be that the competition is made using exclusive content and you have to live with privacy infringement tech to consume cultural art legally.

    In my opinion, in a capitalist system, the market competition should be about delivering the content the best way, not about what content they deliver.

    Right now, they can made the delivery as shitty as they want, because what takes them apart from competition is the exclusive content, not the tech.

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    • ironsoap@lemmy.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Agreed, now the fun part of coming up with a legal basis to do so and convincing regulators.

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      • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I think in the EU one could achieve something like this a la appstore opening rule, where streaming services are demanded to give other streaming services access to the library, lime some sort of roaming 🤔

        Or you split the distribution from the company producing stuff

        So many possibilities 😂

        Luckily I am in a pirate friendly country 🏴‍☠️

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• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  regulations for ad quality, and privacy, are almost certainly what they mean by that.

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• TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m having a hard time seeing any bill get passed that supports the rights of users to watch videos without the ads that support the creators and the platform that they’re watching.

  We should reach a compromise of having skippable ads in the beginning only, for example. In other pages it could be that ads cannot be bigger than 10% of the content being delivered on the page. It’s not always all or nothing, good regulation listens to both sides and reaches a compromise in the middle, but good regulation is getting harder and harder to come by.

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