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> rewarding screen time with financial incentives

So the social media companies can do this through ads but not their users, interesting line to draw.

It's really hard to not see the DMA as some ambiguous law that EU is gonna throw in the face of everything they don't like, with good merits or not, long term this is gonna help the EU as much as paying the mafia to not break into your shop.




Ads do not encourage more use, they do the opposite - annoy users into closing the app.

Teens do not need encouragement to spend more time on TikTok than they already do.


Nah the EU stays the western world babysitter. And let's be honest, the US doesn't make it easy for them.


It’s somewhat humorous that the US is the military world police while Europe is the regulatory police. Spider-Man pointing meme.




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