Re: [hrpc] 'Technical Standards Bodies are Regulators'

[Vittorio Bertola <[e-mail]>]

 

> Il 04/11/2023 17:52 CET Mallory Knodel <mknodel=[e-mail]> ha scritto:
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> Another example is “the Wikipedia test”, that I talked about in the wake of the Digital Services Act. If a regulation negatively impacts a global public good like Wikipedia, that regulation got it wrong on some fundamental level.
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Only as far as there is agreement on the assessment that the impact is negative, which you'll almost never have, because the proponents of the regulation will argue in good faith that the impact is actually positive for the public interest, even if it creates additional burden or requires changes in the way the resource operates. The Cyber-Resilience Act is another current case of this issue, with the open source industry arguing that regulation will make life impossible for small-scale, hobbyist open source projects up to the point of making them disappear, and the proponents replying "that is exactly what we deem necessary for the good of the general public".
 
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