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The need to implement upload filters is probably a greater burden on smaller players than it is on large players, so it could have the opposite effect. Faceboo
by stakhanov 8y ago
The need to implement upload filters is probably a greater burden on smaller players than it is on large players, so it could have the opposite effect.
Facebook can afford to just implement the damned upload filter.
But if you're an operator of a small blog, you'll likely just turn off commenting functionality and stuff like that.
If you're even smaller, and relying on other people to provide infrastructure for you to be able to comment on stuff, where does that push you? You guessed it. Back to the likes of Facebook, Twitter, etc.
- gnode 8y agoI'm not talking about smaller centralised services, but rather distributed peer-to-peer systems, using IPFS for instance. Use of such systems has fallen out of fashion largely because of the rise of centralised alternatives (e.g. you can listen to music for free on Youtube nowadays). I think the tide could reverse if the law harms the centralised services.