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The problem not a technical one, it is a social/economic/political one. It is how the big players gets to dictate policy virtually unchecked. Email, on the pr
by digi_owl 9y ago
The problem not a technical one, it is a social/economic/political one.
It is how the big players gets to dictate policy virtually unchecked.
Email, on the protocol level, is still decentralized. But Google and a few other big players have via their spam filters dictated how every email server on the planet is to behave, or else.
And we are seeing similar things happening with web servers and browsers, just look at the railroading the W3C DRM spec got.
- EGreg 9y agoW3C DRM happened because of Tim Berners-Lee himself. And I agree that, since W3C is a central point, it is the target for attacking. But it's possible to decentralize things in a way that stays decentralized, for LOCAL communications. Email spam is only a problem across the global internet. Not within local networks. Same goes for other types of communications. Human speech for example has remained peer to peer even as radio was invented :) I really think the problem is a technical one. The social and political outcomes are almost inevitable, just like the two party system is a nearly inevitable outcome of the first-past-the-post ballot. Lots of paradigms changed as technologies were introduced. The phone, radio, the printing press etc. Technology has a great impact on society.
- fiatjaf 9y agoYou're wrong. The problem is a technical one. Do you remember what was it like before the TECHNOLOGY of the internet was created and deployed?