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GDPR is a good example on how treating information carefully is important. Facebook, YouTube, etc spreading of missinformation is something that needs to be fi

GDPR is a good example on how treating information carefully is important. Facebook, YouTube, etc spreading of missinformation is something that needs to be fixed for democracy to survive. Apps like Uber that do not recognize its own employees and follow the strategy of running faster than laws are also a good example of something that is damaging our society. Addictive loot boxes that prey on teenagers is another ugly one. I will need more time to think to make a better list, but these are some of the ones I think need stronger regulation.

dagenix 7y ago
> Apps like Uber that ... follow the strategy of running faster than laws are also a good example of something that is damaging our society. Re just the part about running faster than the laws: As best as I can tell, app based taxis exist solely because Uber ignored the laws - and good (in some cases) that they did as the laws were designed to protect the entrenched businesses that had no incentive to change regardless of how well they were working. Anecdotally, I've seen a huge increase in people taking Uber or Lyft to or from a happy hour when 10 years ago those same people would likely have decided to drive because calling a traditional Taxi was so much of a pain. Ignoring the laws is a weak criticism when sometimes that is the only way to achieve progress. No comment on how they treat their employees - that is its own complicated issue that I won't comment on here.
som33 7y ago
Uhh the last 200 years of IP law is proof regulation doesn't work, the corporations won every battle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/media/File:Tom_Bell's_graph_showing_extension_of_U.S._copyright_term_over_time.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/... It was a blow out, the average person like yourself is too politically uninformed to know what to do. The only way out would to get rid of DRM entirely and reform IP law so that we owned our machines and software, you can't have privacy if every piece of software is client-server oriented like PC games have become over the last 20 years. The videogame industry has been stealing PC game software since the late 90's starting with them rebadging PC RPG's they had in development as mmo's to confuse a lay public, after the early successes of Ultima online, everquest and guild wars 1, that lead us to Valve dropping steam in 2004, a piece of corporate malware wrapped around games. From 2004 to 2009, was the game industry cleaning house as PC games they had in development were either rebadged mmo, or were given steamworks integration, this lead to EA and ubisoft to make Uplay and Origin, more malware, client-server oriented bs. IF you don't own the software you have no rights to your machine and your software can now be disabled remotely. Going from dedicated servers, complete software ownership in teh 90's to this locked down dystopian hellscape of steam, Epic game store, Ubisoft Uplay, Bethesda launcher, EA's origin, and Battle.net launcher for activision games. I have to wonder what you are smoking to think regulation will work this time, when everytime IP law came up for reform it was expanded everytime to remove basic rights of the citizens.

dagenix 7y ago

> Apps like Uber that ... follow the strategy of running faster than laws are also a good example of something that is damaging our society. Re just the part about running faster than the laws: As best as I can tell, app based taxis exist solely because Uber ignored the laws - and good (in some cases) that they did as the laws were designed to protect the entrenched businesses that had no incentive to change regardless of how well they were working. Anecdotally, I've seen a huge increase in people taking Uber or Lyft to or from a happy hour when 10 years ago those same people would likely have decided to drive because calling a traditional Taxi was so much of a pain. Ignoring the laws is a weak criticism when sometimes that is the only way to achieve progress. No comment on how they treat their employees - that is its own complicated issue that I won't comment on here.

som33 7y ago

Uhh the last 200 years of IP law is proof regulation doesn't work, the corporations won every battle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/media/File:Tom_Bell's_graph_showing_extension_of_U.S._copyright_term_over_time.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/... It was a blow out, the average person like yourself is too politically uninformed to know what to do. The only way out would to get rid of DRM entirely and reform IP law so that we owned our machines and software, you can't have privacy if every piece of software is client-server oriented like PC games have become over the last 20 years. The videogame industry has been stealing PC game software since the late 90's starting with them rebadging PC RPG's they had in development as mmo's to confuse a lay public, after the early successes of Ultima online, everquest and guild wars 1, that lead us to Valve dropping steam in 2004, a piece of corporate malware wrapped around games. From 2004 to 2009, was the game industry cleaning house as PC games they had in development were either rebadged mmo, or were given steamworks integration, this lead to EA and ubisoft to make Uplay and Origin, more malware, client-server oriented bs. IF you don't own the software you have no rights to your machine and your software can now be disabled remotely. Going from dedicated servers, complete software ownership in teh 90's to this locked down dystopian hellscape of steam, Epic game store, Ubisoft Uplay, Bethesda launcher, EA's origin, and Battle.net launcher for activision games. I have to wonder what you are smoking to think regulation will work this time, when everytime IP law came up for reform it was expanded everytime to remove basic rights of the citizens.