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True. It's a nice demonstration of why capitalistic markets and sovereign countries are good things. If a company I do business with is subverting my rights (i
by jakeogh 9y ago
True. It's a nice demonstration of why capitalistic markets and sovereign countries are good things.
If a company I do business with is subverting my rights (in this case the ability to even remember something), I'll gleefully stop using them.
Astroturf corps are salivating at the possibilities.
- zaarn 9y agoThe problem usually starts to occur when the company that starts subverting your rights is too monopolistic on a market with either a high barrier to entry or a strong networking effect (CPU/GPU vendors and social networks). In this case choosing another vendor may not be easy (find a GPU that isn't AMD/NVidia/Matrox and that works with most games or find a social network that allows the same reach as facebook or find a video sharing site with the same ad revenue and reach as youtube)
- jakeogh 9y agoI'm with you there. Antitrust law has been applied effectively (although in the FB case, I find it hard to come up with a technical argument as to why, it's just MySpace 2.0 and we will laugh about it years from now). I tend to jump into these conversations because it's often related to a push for more law.