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> This isn’t to say that the end is near for these new giants — or even for Uber, whose business is, it says, still growing. Just that the golden age is over. T

by ufmace 9y ago

> This isn’t to say that the end is near for these new giants — or even for Uber, whose business is, it says, still growing. Just that the golden age is over. The new era for them will be normal politics, normal regulation, with California senators deep in their pockets who fight for them as hard as Texans fight for oil, but with a deep bipartisan current flowing against them. What might happen if there's a strong bipartisan movement to regulate the new tech world?

QAPereo 9y ago
It will be regulated in that case... congress has very broad powers in this arena when they choose to exercise them.
tomjen3 9y ago
I don't buy the idea that they can't starve this of with money - what are the politicians going to do when images of their extra marital affairs ends up on every billboard in their districts? Images that were taken by private detectives and paid for by google and the other tech companies? Sure they might play the game like everybody else do, and just bribe the congress people. That would be stupid, but they can outspend most companies because they make so much money.
- throwaway2048 9y ago
  If you think publicly threatening officials with information you are purloining off their accounts is going to end well for you...
Stranger43 9y ago
What have happened to other highly technical industries. A short list of regulations that might happen: Mandatory compliance with technical interoperability standards ie no proprietary facebook messenger or whatsapp protocols. Mandatory public 3rd party post incident reviews for security incidents or major bugs/outages on the template of the NTSB. Strictly enforced free-market regulation prohibiting exclusivity deals between tech companies and retail/content/service providers. A complete ban on default-on cross site tracking.(likely coming to Europe as a part of the cookie directory review the industry asked for) Heavy restrictions on what you can do in terms of using/selling the results of analysing user data.(partially already in effect across Europe)

by ufmace 9y ago

QAPereo 9y ago

It will be regulated in that case... congress has very broad powers in this arena when they choose to exercise them.

tomjen3 9y ago

I don't buy the idea that they can't starve this of with money - what are the politicians going to do when images of their extra marital affairs ends up on every billboard in their districts? Images that were taken by private detectives and paid for by google and the other tech companies? Sure they might play the game like everybody else do, and just bribe the congress people. That would be stupid, but they can outspend most companies because they make so much money.

throwaway2048 9y ago
If you think publicly threatening officials with information you are purloining off their accounts is going to end well for you...

Stranger43 9y ago

What have happened to other highly technical industries. A short list of regulations that might happen: Mandatory compliance with technical interoperability standards ie no proprietary facebook messenger or whatsapp protocols. Mandatory public 3rd party post incident reviews for security incidents or major bugs/outages on the template of the NTSB. Strictly enforced free-market regulation prohibiting exclusivity deals between tech companies and retail/content/service providers. A complete ban on default-on cross site tracking.(likely coming to Europe as a part of the cookie directory review the industry asked for) Heavy restrictions on what you can do in terms of using/selling the results of analysing user data.(partially already in effect across Europe)