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Seems like one of the decisions a consumer should make, and not phone OS provider in this case. My overall sentiment is that any actively enforced regulation,
by 75dvtwin 7y ago
Seems like one of the decisions a consumer should make, and not phone OS provider in this case.
My overall sentiment is that any actively enforced regulation, is often used as a weapon against competitors, or as a weapon to racketeer money from a business.
(whether it is privacy, patent enforcement, copy right enforcement, nondiscrimination and so on).
Therefore, what's missing, generally, is the complimentary framework to to make sure that actively enforced policies are not abused.
I do not know how exactly those complimentary no-abuse laws would work, but I think they have to be part-and-parcel of every legislation, and should be voted for at the same time.
Without it, we do not have a truly 'fair competition and instead business compete on whose team of lawyers is more creative and more aggressive.
- lugg 7y agoWe don't have truly fair competition anyway. Giving this right to consumers is equal to taking it away. Carriers will simply make you sign a waiver on signup that lets them take whatever they want anyway. You may think that market competition will weed those carriers out by my dollars voting elsewhere but I'm pretty sure it won't, at least not in my lifetime, if ever, given how many people gladly sign over not only their data but my data as well to places like Facebook every day.
- cameronbrown 7y agoAt least people choose to give FB/Google their data. Carriers have no right to it.
- blackoil 7y agoGoogle is near monopoly on <500usd mobiles and maps. So it is difficult for users to exercise the right to not use them.