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I tried to search faq how to block people but couldn't find any info. How do I do that?

If it's not possible, I'm pretty sure this site is breaking the EU social media laws.

The site doesn't need to follow the laws of every country on earth. If they had paid advertisers from EU it would be different.

HN is a pretty high trust site, I'd hope the community is still mature enough to self-moderate. Then again I was here when Terry would post his (admittedly) entertaining rants, the epic Michael O'Church essays, and flamewars between idlewords and pg. Maybe it always allowed for a little bit of funposting, in moderation.

Which EU laws do you think mandate a 'block' feaure on HN?

I use uBlock Origin cosmetic filters for blocking trolls on here. Something like:

  news.ycombinator.com##:matches-path(/^/item\?id=/) tr a.hnuser:has-text(/^dpifke$/):upward(tr)

That rule doesn't exist.

There's no "block user" requirement in the EU DSA.

A brilliant idea some startup accelerator in the EU can create a platform that conforms to EU laws. It can't be that hard, given that the UI hasn't changed much in a decade or more. I can already see it "Hacker news, but hosted in the EU with Swiss privacy and is GDPR compliant".

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