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And perhaps, we should look at this from the PoV of the user and not defend the "company" (which has the advantage in all cases).

Screaming "bureaucracy" and "overregulation" for every single attempt at limiting the impact of corporations is just silly.

>>isodev+(OP)
Yes, so from the point of view of the user was there evidence of actual harm?

>>m101+T2
Well yes - so many young people in the UK have been radicalised. Was it the fault of Imgur, I don't know, probably not. Is the Online Safety Act going to solve it? Probably not.

But my comment was that, in general, it's not up to Imgur, Google, Meta, Apple, etc. to have an opinion on this or any other country's policy because it's just not fair. 1 corporation should not have more say or sway than 1 citizen vote. And that ideally includes their ability to "lobby" and buy themselves regulations (like the recent AI law in California which practically doesn't do anything).

>>isodev+pg
Yes, agreed. So force them to leave the market over imposing financial penalties. Financial penalties correlate with correcting poor business behaviour, but also they correlate with poor regulator incentives towards revenue over harm.

My general point is how do we ensure governments are honest wrt to the consumer. Removing financial incentives towards revenue generation for them might actually be a step in that direction.