Face à l’addiction numérique qui gagne du terrain, les législateurs européens envisagent l’interdiction de certaines fonctions « addictives » des réseaux sociaux. Il y a environ un an, le Parlement européen s’est à nouveau penché sur la question désormais courante de la dépendance des réseaux sociaux, affirmant que des fonctions telles que le « infinite scroll » et la lecture automatique […]
About a year ago, the European Parliament addressed once again the now mainstream concern of the “addictiveness” of social media, claiming that features such as infinite scroll and auto-playing videos are to blame for hocking users to their apps.
In this week’s episode of ConsEUmer: 📱 Meta launches competitor to Twitter 🇩🇪 Germany bans new fossil fuel heating from 2024 🌐 Should streaming services pay telecom companies ? (w/ Konstantinos Komaitis) Note: It was announced after we recorded the episode that Meta’s new platform “Threads” won’t be available in EU app stores. Follow Konstantinos […]
We’re back from Davos! In this week’s episode: 🌱 What’s the future of the EU Farm to Fork strategy? 🎵 Tick-tock for TikTok (w/ Zoltán Kész) 🌐 The importance of browsers (w/ Kush Amlani) Zoltan quoted on TikTok: https://dailynewshungary.com/will-tiktok-be-banned-in-the-eu-and-hungary/ Mozilla research on browser competition: https://research.mozilla.org/browser-competition/ February 2, 2023 Follow ConsEUmer wherever you get your podcasts: […]
In this week’s episode of the ConsEUmer podcast: 🇫🇷 The effects of France’s ban on domestic flights 🇭🇺 Hungary implements price caps (w/ Zoltán Kész) 🎵 Is TikTok a threat? (w/ Adam Kovacevich) Follow Zoltán Kész on Twitter @KeszZoltan. Follow Adam Kovacevich on Twitter @adamkovac. Zoltán’s press release: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/orbans-price-caps-on-food-and-fuel-will-lead-to-shortages/ Adam’s post: https://www.smerconish.com/exclusive-content/tiktok-is-a-runaway-success-but-its-chinese-ownership-is-problematic-for-the-u-s/ Support the war […]
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