6 ms·

And the answer to that is regulating? Of course not. Regulations like these only work out for the powerful.

• Dylan16807 7y ago
  > Regulations like these only work out for the powerful. "like these"... if you said that in almost any other context I wouldn't bat an eye. When it's about access controls to the accounts of dead people, I am utterly baffled at how that will benefit the powerful.
  • jetzzz 7y ago
    It is harder for small teams (or even single persons) running small forums to comply with different regulations than it is for a big company. There was a story recently about a guy who was running some specialized forum but decided to shut it down after he started receiving GDPR requests.
    • inflatableDodo 7y ago
      Do you actually think it would be an unreasonable burden on a small business to have to remove a dead person from a marketing database when requested to by their family?
      • drusepth 7y ago
        It becomes an unreasonable burden when you have dozens or hundreds of small burdens/regulations that aren't unreasonable on their own, but collectively steal a significant amount of time from small businesses trying to balance developing something new and growing with complying with every little regulation they may or may not even know about.
        • inflatableDodo 7y ago
          Having to remove a dead person from a marketing database when requested to by their family is never an unreasonable burden, it is somewhat shameful that there is even a need to remind people of that. Following regulations requiring this should not require any extra effort because it is something you should already be doing.
          • drusepth 7y ago
            While I agree with you, the argument is that adding regulations over hundreds of "little things you should already be doing" is the kind of regulation that hurts small businesses / sole developers that want to focus on developing and growing new products.
• jrochkind1 7y ago
  Who is it you think lack of regulation works out for then?
• cabalamat 7y ago
  Want real competition in social networks? The regulation needed is for all sites with user-generaled content to be required to allow other sites to re-use any public user-generated content, without and legal or technical obstacles. The main reason we don't have proper competition is network effects, and this would be a major way round them. (ideally all social networking websites would be federated using ActivityPub and similar protocols, but this is a minimum).
  • henvic 7y ago
    I am all for decentralization. Heck, I am even working on a business idea that involves it as a core part of the business. However, I feel that decentralization should win the marketplace by providing value and making users adopt it willingly. I hate when things are forced down. There are plenty of alternatives to..., say, Facebook... but many - if not most - people still prefer to use it. So let them do it and please don't force Facebook to change by laws. As a long time IRC user, I hate centralized chat but I respect others' decision to use Slack instead. I want to see decentralization become the norm again naturally. Not forced through evil laws.