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Yes, the Googles and Facebooks of the future will be affected the most. This is consolidation of power, finally locking down the Free Internet just as we've do
by kakarot 8y ago
Yes, the Googles and Facebooks of the future will be affected the most.
This is consolidation of power, finally locking down the Free Internet just as we've done with every other industry. Stripping the power to change from the small.
And what are we doing about it?
- sparkzilla 8y agoWhile I agree that regulation favours big companies, potential competitors will base themselves offshore, or create distributed apps that have no jurisdiction.
- jonathanstrange 8y agoBoth strategies have been tried and are unlikely to hold up in court.
- sparkzilla 8y agoA bit challenging to sue a project when it has no owners and no jurisdiction. PS: Jonathan Strange: Great books and even better TV.
- mosselman 8y agoNor customers/users. The problem is that 'normal' people don't know how to use most distributed/encrypted/stick-it-to-the-man products, nor do they care.
- sparkzilla 8y ago'Normal' people already use distributed content: Google and Facebook's content is held in data servers all across the planet. The next stage is to distribute the governance of that content, which similarly, most users won't be aware of.
- kakarot 8y agoThis is just a pedantic disagreement about what "distributed" means. It's all about context.
- adrianN 8y agoSomebody has to host the content. You can sue those people. P2P filesharing works the same way. Normal people get unfriendly letters from lawyers.
- sparkzilla 8y agoAnd yet people still download Torrents.
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- dingaling 8y ago> And what are we doing about it? Make our own content and host it ourselves? This type of law is only effective due to centralisation of Internet services. If everyone self-hosted and was accountable for their own content there would be no scope for such legislation. All HN would hold would be linked-lists of URLs, no actual comment content. Imagine a decentralised, federated HN where each comment originated from its owner's site.
- quanticle 8y ago>This type of law is only effective due to centralisation of Internet services. This type of law encourages that very centralization. Look at the provisions of GDPR, for example. Do you think a two-person startup is going to have the resources to deal with all of its provisions? Or in this case: do you think that a new video-sharing startup is going to have the resources to deal with the more stringent copyright enforcement requirements? The EU has, in effect, made a Faustian bargain with Google, Facebook and Twitter: if you accept our regulation, we'll ensure that you have no competitors.
- groestl 8y ago> Look at the provisions of GDPR, for example. Do you think a two-person startup is going to have the resources to deal with all of its provisions? GDPR is a bad example, because yes, that's definitely possible. And it should be, if that startup handles personal data.
- AnthonyMouse 8y agoBut what kind of startup doesn't handle personal data? All companies have that in the form of customer and supplier account information needed for billing purposes -- especially if they're not in the advertising business.
- groestl 8y agoAbsolutely, and that's kind of my point. Even a single person operation can comply with the GDPR, as most of the policies to do so should alreay be state-of-the-art for companies who handle personal data (in a non-malicous way). I agree there is some annoying administrative overhead, but it's definitely manageable (speaking from experience here).