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>It should be prohibited for companies to halt service someone without providing a reasonable explanation. By US standards, that would require an absurd level
by sithadmin 10y ago
>It should be prohibited for companies to halt service someone without providing a reasonable explanation.
By US standards, that would require an absurd level of legislative and/or judicial overreach. I don't think I'd even want to do business in that kind of regulatory climate.
- brokentone 10y agoThis is very true. However, I wonder if we as engineers and the like can provide a better TLDR ratings guide for marketplaces. Kinda like https://tosdr.org/ https://tosdr.org/ or a BBB that works... Then we as engineers refuse to build apps for marketplaces below some kind of score. Or does it even matter if the Apple App store is the only marketplace of its kind?
- weaksauce 10y agoIf people are making money on a platform, people will develop for it regardless of these issues. Unfortunate reality.
- jeffbr13 10y agoDemocracy only works in a growing economy.
- abakker 10y agoWhy is this a meme? Is there any evidence that this is true?
- abakker 10y agoSelf reply- it appears that Sam Altman made this assertion in a recent New Yorker article as well as a blog post. I think the observation of low growth is good, but the assertion that democracy does t work without a economic growth is less persuasive. All forms of progress need not be measured by GDP. In fact, many issues indicative of social progress have difficult to measure economic impact or even potentially negative economic impact with good social benefits.
- dandare 10y agoOn a related note, as a small startup I am looking for some TOS generator that I - the single developer - could also understand and that will be clear and fair to my users. Any advice?
- brokentone 10y agoExcellent question. I know of no answer, but maybe part of the issue of terrible TOS's is lack of resources to write good ones?
- llwt 10y agoIubenda,https://www.iubenda.com/en https://www.iubenda.com/en, has worked well for us.
- blazespin 10y agoOn the contrary, that's exactly the environment I'd want to do biz in. Some kind of pro-small biz small claims legislation.
- pc86 10y agoAn environment where anyone you provide services to can take you to court because they don't find your explanation "reasonable"?
- kolinko 10y agoWell, even in US there are antitrust laws, right?
- usrusr 10y agoHow could that be worse than doing business in an environment of dominant platforms that will arbitrarily shut you down whenever the business they lose to a false positive (i.e. none, because the business just moves to the next guy) is cheaper than the investigation that would avoid the false positive?
- CamperBob2 10y agoAny sufficiently dominant monopoly is indistinguishable from a government. So, choose your poison. We can govern them, or they can govern us.