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If monopolies are allowed, the bigger a company is, the increased responsibility it should have. Many of large IT companies deliver free products and services,
by jokoon 9y ago
If monopolies are allowed, the bigger a company is, the increased responsibility it should have. Many of large IT companies deliver free products and services, yet they still make the rules because they are in a monopoly nobody can compete with, because they give it for free.
Since it's not their data, they should have tougher restrictions the more data they handle.
It's weird because those online platform are thriving thanks to the ideal of free speech, but they are not public entities so free speech doesn't apply to them. It is very frustrating to see private interests seize the tools people use to express themselves.
As long as online data rests on private servers which are tied to lucrative interests, the internet will not be a platform where you can freely express yourself.
I have always thought that the whole online advertisement model is unhealthy and not a good system to make the internet cheaper for consumers. Ad blockers are a proof of this. If tomorrow firefox or any browser decide to not display ads and consumers go along with it, it would create a big mess.
- pitaj 9y agoI am off the opinion that it is precisely because of the backwards copyright policies, namely the DMCA, that YouTube ever became a monopolistic force on the internet.