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Regardless of how well you feel this article is written whether you agree with it, it's important to not ignore it and others like it. This reflects a growing s

Regardless of how well you feel this article is written whether you agree with it, it's important to not ignore it and others like it. This reflects a growing sentiment among much of the population—address their concerns, or regulation will do it for you (likely in a sub-optimal, if not counterproductive, way).

domevent 9y ago
That ball is already rolling downhill, and I don’t think it can be stopped. In addition to the perfectly reasonable concerns of a few billion people, there are also some very wealthy and entrenched media interests who only stand to gain by kicking it along. I don’t think the reputation of tech is salvageable at this point, and the result will be having to live with regulation and oversight like every other industry. Even if everyone shaped up overnight (and they won’t) there is still so much yet to emerge into the public light about what has already happened. Uber and Facebook alone have almost certainly only just begun to bleed scandal.
- laen 9y ago
  > the result will be having to live with regulation and oversight like every other industry. The only other industry I think could be comparable to this, from a privacy standpoint, would be the banking industry. They are largely flying under the radar during all of this, any hypothesis why? Is it because their regulation and oversight is working like you are alluding to? Or is it because the banking industry has not been caught...yet?
jeoeo8383 9y ago
Anyone that can build a project from a “build a web app in 24hrs!” is capable of building a private replacement for these things These svcs just strike me as so worthless that we should be spending the resources on the data centers. I share family moments via some raspberry pi’s running sync thing Just copy photos from phone over to a Samba share, and grandparents, aunts, uncles get a refresh Facebook especially is utter novelty. Twitter I use for local alerts. Cause rss couldn’t raise a bunch of IPO dollars This social thing needs to drop off a bit. A Facebook implosion might be a good thing

domevent 9y ago

That ball is already rolling downhill, and I don’t think it can be stopped. In addition to the perfectly reasonable concerns of a few billion people, there are also some very wealthy and entrenched media interests who only stand to gain by kicking it along. I don’t think the reputation of tech is salvageable at this point, and the result will be having to live with regulation and oversight like every other industry. Even if everyone shaped up overnight (and they won’t) there is still so much yet to emerge into the public light about what has already happened. Uber and Facebook alone have almost certainly only just begun to bleed scandal.

laen 9y ago
> the result will be having to live with regulation and oversight like every other industry. The only other industry I think could be comparable to this, from a privacy standpoint, would be the banking industry. They are largely flying under the radar during all of this, any hypothesis why? Is it because their regulation and oversight is working like you are alluding to? Or is it because the banking industry has not been caught...yet?

jeoeo8383 9y ago

Anyone that can build a project from a “build a web app in 24hrs!” is capable of building a private replacement for these things These svcs just strike me as so worthless that we should be spending the resources on the data centers. I share family moments via some raspberry pi’s running sync thing Just copy photos from phone over to a Samba share, and grandparents, aunts, uncles get a refresh Facebook especially is utter novelty. Twitter I use for local alerts. Cause rss couldn’t raise a bunch of IPO dollars This social thing needs to drop off a bit. A Facebook implosion might be a good thing