[oittaa]

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.

[akvadrako]

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.

[mise_en_place]

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.

[shkkmo]

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

[dpifke]

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)

[tantalor]

That rule doesn't exist.

[JacobThreeThree]

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

[AnonMO]

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".