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It should be illegal for companies like Twitter to forbid this. Users should be free to access their data, and free to use any tool to do so. The revered networ
by nothrabannosir 9y ago
It should be illegal for companies like Twitter to forbid this. Users should be free to access their data, and free to use any tool to do so. The revered network effect is anti consumer and it must be broken.
This is the one regulation that could save a nation from FB, Twitter, Instagram and their ilk. Any politician to run on this could shoot somebody in the middle of a crowded street without losing my support.
- jejrjntkpou 9y agoUsers are free to access their data so long as they don’t host it on a remote server How can a user access data if someone else used whatever hack they wanted and brought the whole service down? IMO you shouldn’t be in the cloud if such things are on your mind Also IMO the clouds days are numbered for the same reasons, but at a macro view Once things like Apples A.I. chip are available on a Raspberry Pi device, Google loses
- alphaalpha101 9y agoThe one regulation that could save a nation from FB, Twitter and Instagram is to ban advertising. All of it. Ban all advertising anywhere for any reason.
- gregknicholson 9y agoYou may not advertise this proposed regulation.
- alphaalpha101 9y agoPlease learn the difference between political speech and advertising.
- tomsmeding 9y ago> Any politician to run on this could shoot somebody in the middle of a crowded street without losing my support. That might be a bit overdone, but I get your point.
- Endy 9y agoI'd say it entirely depends on who they're shooting.
- nerflad 9y agoIt's a reference to a statement the current president made during his campaign.
- RepressedEmu 9y agoIts an (in)famous Trump line.