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Facebook will have a lobby that carves out an exception for itself while simultaneously shutting down any threat to its monopoly through this legislation.
by jjawssd 9y ago
Facebook will have a lobby that carves out an exception for itself while simultaneously shutting down any threat to its monopoly through this legislation.
- AJ007 9y agoIn the EU, maybe not. This may be a signal that the internet has become way too centralized. The irony of the centralization of a decentralized platform is suddenly enforcement of regulations like these become feasible. The nuclear-war proof internet is suddenly vulnerable to people sitting behind desks or whatever the hell they do in Europe.
- EGreg 9y agoThis. The Web should become re decentralized. Identity breaches now happening all the time. Central databases are crack to NSA, advertising agencies and others. But there is hope! https://qbix.com/blog/index.php/2017/08/centralization-and-open-source/ https://qbix.com/blog/index.php/2017/08/centralization-and-o...
- runeks 9y agoThe EU is the very reason we see this sort of legislation. Everything has positive and negative sides, and for the EU the negative side is giving lobbyists a 28-for-1 offer: lobby a single parliament, and have your legislation implemented in 28 different countries! The mileage of a European lobbyist has never been greater than it is now.
- dreamfactored 9y agoGovernments could take down fb (and google) if they chose to. They'll fight back but the Chinese have demonstrated that it's possible given sufficient will. With fb having recently been targeting Kremlin propaganda at voting populations I wouldn't be entirely surprised if they didn't get canned in the name of national security.
- jjawssd 9y agoIs there any evidence to suggest that Facebook has very significant influence over any government in the world?