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The problem with any regulation curtailing Facebook is it's practically guaranteed to hurt Internet freedoms. A lot.
by chx 9y ago
The problem with any regulation curtailing Facebook is it's practically guaranteed to hurt Internet freedoms. A lot.
- mirkules 9y agoThank you! I feel like I'm watching this trainwreck in slow motion by myself, as we used to inch - but now barrell - towards regulating the internet into oblivion. This is ironic, of course, because the internet is meant to be decentralized and deregulated, and the very people pushing for regulation are the same ones that oppose legislation in other aspects (e.g. encryption). It's a very short hop from wanting Facebook to comply with some law, to compelling Facebook to turn over user data to verify the law has not been broken.
- rimliu 9y agoRegulating what corporations can do with your data is a bit different than regulating internet.
- rimliu 9y agoHow? By this measure GDPR should also hurt internet, no?
- joering2 9y agoIt is, but in most part it is hurting spammers and shady ESPs :)