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Who would you rather have it governed by? Facebook? Microsoft? Amazon? Wall Street? DARPA? US Govt? EU? China? Russia? At an abstract level: any organization,

Who would you rather have it governed by? Facebook? Microsoft? Amazon? Wall Street? DARPA? US Govt? EU? China? Russia? At an abstract level: any organization, run by humans, with a lot of power over critical aspects of our life is bound to get corrupted due to that power. Its just that some organizations are less bad than others. And I believe Google isn't much worse than many other realistic alternatives.

hanselot 8y ago
It should not be governed. Just make it an open transparent platform that anyone can do anything on, but if they get caught doing illegal shit, they get arrested. You, know, the way we do shit in reality too.
rexpop 8y ago
Such an organization, designed to respect input from consumers, workers, and global community members affected by negative externalities might be called a "co-op."
cazum 8y ago
It's a matter of oversight, transparency, accountability and motivation. In the case of Google, they have very little oversight, nearly zero transparency, they are accountable to only their shareholders, and their motives are exclusively profit. They have no interest, or even means of producing, a publically good internet. They can and will only produce an internet that is best suited to make them money. And with that there will be inherent conflicts with what is best for the users. At least with a government you get some of the transparency and oversight, public control and no profit motive (if you cap campaign financing that is) Some organization structures are better suited to do different things.
lainga 8y ago
That's a false, uh, decachotomy (?), it doesn't have to be a centralized organization of any kind at all
- iaml 8y ago
  The word you are looking for is dichotomy.
  - egman_ekki 8y ago
    I think the parent commenter wanted to emphasize that there are more than 2 options (di- = 2, deca- = 10) to choose from...
    - iaml 8y ago
      But false decachotomy would imply there are more than 10 options. Seems weirdly specific.
- RestlessMind 8y ago
  It doesn't have to be, but things seem to be inevitably gravitating towards a centralized model because it seems people care the most about their User Experience and everything else is secondary (privacy, monopoly, monoculture, worker abuse, etc).

hanselot 8y ago

It should not be governed. Just make it an open transparent platform that anyone can do anything on, but if they get caught doing illegal shit, they get arrested. You, know, the way we do shit in reality too.

rexpop 8y ago

Such an organization, designed to respect input from consumers, workers, and global community members affected by negative externalities might be called a "co-op."

cazum 8y ago

It's a matter of oversight, transparency, accountability and motivation. In the case of Google, they have very little oversight, nearly zero transparency, they are accountable to only their shareholders, and their motives are exclusively profit. They have no interest, or even means of producing, a publically good internet. They can and will only produce an internet that is best suited to make them money. And with that there will be inherent conflicts with what is best for the users. At least with a government you get some of the transparency and oversight, public control and no profit motive (if you cap campaign financing that is) Some organization structures are better suited to do different things.

lainga 8y ago

That's a false, uh, decachotomy (?), it doesn't have to be a centralized organization of any kind at all

iaml 8y ago
The word you are looking for is dichotomy.
- egman_ekki 8y ago
  I think the parent commenter wanted to emphasize that there are more than 2 options (di- = 2, deca- = 10) to choose from...
  - iaml 8y ago
    But false decachotomy would imply there are more than 10 options. Seems weirdly specific.
RestlessMind 8y ago
It doesn't have to be, but things seem to be inevitably gravitating towards a centralized model because it seems people care the most about their User Experience and everything else is secondary (privacy, monopoly, monoculture, worker abuse, etc).