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FYI the EU has regulations on this very topic and are about to get stricter.
The EU really seems to be leading the charge on 'shit that makes sense and improves the world a bit' these days
Good joke.
All regulation with any teeth against big business I've seen in recent years came from the EU.
What do you mean? The US has been going left and right to companies and making them pinky promise to transition past the orphan crushing machine (in exchange for increasing the orphan quota)