New bill would ban autoplay videos and endless scrolling
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#2“If I take the bottom out of this glass and I keep refilling the water or the wine, you won’t know when to stop drinking”
That's not how drinking works. That's not how anything works.
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#3This seems like an extremely short sited, overly broad and unlikely to pass bill, and to make it all worse, based on the title, I thought that someone was attempting to ban videos that play automatically when you visit a website, which would have been a deeply noble cause.
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#4God this is so fucking stupid. Can we get the Government to focus on actual problems rather than this bullshit?
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#5So fitting for The Verge to be reporting this.
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#6This sounds like complete joke. Next another bill will ban pagination?
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#7Banning autoplay videos, with extremely severe penalties for offenders, would be a great thing for the world.
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#8If politicians could focus their efforts on actually solving problems instead of giving hand outs to their tort lawyer buddies, we might get a better system.
The lawsuits would include:
- autoplay of gifs vs web videos
- does Pinterest count as an auto scroll ad
- does an endless scroll populated with 50% real content count as non-ad?
The law will just create more headaches for the producers and less innovation thanks to having to fight lawsuits.
Example of the depths lawyers can class action: Godiva is being sued in court for putting “Godiva 1927” on the label; the lawyer is arguing that people believe that the chocolate was made in 1927.
*edited the content away from ideas.
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#9Things like requiring accept and decline checkboxes to be the same font seem somewhat reasonable, even if I disagree with it, but banning autoplay videos and endless scrolling is insane. There are legitimate uses for autoplay videos (ex. Netflix playing next episode, YouTube playing next song when you are listening to music) which I personally use all the time and appreciate, and endless scrolling is great when you don't need to refer back to previous results, and don't want to keep clicking "next". I think people should have the freedom to consume content how they want, the government shouldn't compensate for their lack of self control.
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