• grue@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It doesn’t just fail to solve any problems; it creates them. This breaks one of the basic founding principles of the world wide web. If website owners can be held liable for hyperlinks that the target of the link doesn’t like for whatever reason, then the entire concept of having hypertext breaks down!

    A major English-speaking country like Canada validating this brain-dead idiocy doesn’t just fuck over Canada; it’s dangerous for the rest of the world because it’s liable to spread.

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      1 year ago

      User generated links are no longer possible in a world where this law is being enforced. websites like Lemmy, mastodon, LinkedIn and Facebook will not be available.

      I don’t see how this could be considered a good idea…