Episodes
Short videos and companion articles on how the EU and US versions of the internet are quietly diverging — one cancel button, cookie banner, fintech app and AI rule at a time. Each episode is sourced to public primary documents.
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Article 5 of the EU AI Act: The Five Prohibitions on Your Screen
Europe wrote down eight things AI is no longer allowed to do — binding law since 2 February 2025. Five of them are about the screen in your hand. The United States has no federal equivalent.
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Germany Wrote the Cancel Button into Law — and the US Settled Its Way There
Since July 2022, Germany's §312k BGB has required a clearly labelled cancel button. In September 2025 Amazon paid $2.5 billion in the FTC's Prime case for the same remedy.