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Let the market sort them out then, right?
by mmazing 6y ago
Let the market sort them out then, right?
- louwrentius 6y agoThank you for the laugh.
- mmazing 6y agoYou are quite welcome. :D
- troughway 6y agoVery hard for the market to sort out NSA-backed companies like Google, Facebook et al.
- guscost 6y agoThe market won't sort them out, but the courts will. Wait until they are deemed a publisher, and no longer exempt from liability[0] for all of the content that they publish. Unfortunately they hire a lot of lobbyists so it might be a long wait. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communications_Decency_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
- judge2020 6y agoRevoking 230 won't make the executives at YouTube go "gosh darn, guess we'll have to start taking a loss by employing hundreds of thousands of moderators to literally watch every video uploaded", they'll constrain and limit the platform in any way which still guarantees similar or greater ad revenue. That is, if there isn't any legal loophole like requiring creators sign legal paperwork which makes creators their own "publisher" or something along those lines.
- guscost 6y agoThey'll probably cull everything that doesn't earn them ad revenue, to minimize the fallout. The content will trend toward sanitized garbage and the viewers will start leaking to somewhere else.
- holler 6y agoThis is all great news if you're building a new social project...
- nwienert 6y agoOr if you just want more diversity.
- holler 6y agothat's the problem... the same handful of companies have dominated the space for the past decade and mostly monopolized the attention. we need more competitors.
- dvtrn 6y agoAny fun theories on how we ended up replicating the same issue of consolidated TV broadcasters and traditional media companies with internet media platforms and content outlets? We’ve had such a long time between the passage of things like the Fairness Doctrine and now to turn the boat (not to mention countless critiques of the consolidation of local news and syndicated television networks for examples), maybe learn a few lessons along the way that I wonder if this isn’t an emergent outcome and is in reality an inherent one. Is this an extreme terminus of network effects?
- smolder 6y agoNo, it's the environment that the media platforms exist in. It's our laws, our economic system, our way of governing, and who has power to influence those things: all fairly consistent due to inertia but not really fated to be what they are, IMO. People seem to think present reality was destined. I think there are other viable ways we could have developed that would look much different and have fewer, more, or just different problems than the ones we take for inevitable.
- intended 6y ago
- aantix 6y agoAnd then they become a constrained platform worried more about litigation than enabling voices, and the disenfranchised move somewhere to hear the message. It’s already headed there.
- fomine3 6y agoApplying US law for the rest of the countries is another problem.
- new_time 6y agoWe can't wait for markets to sort themselves out while a few executives and their well connected friends control and decide the information we get to see and hear. The stakes are too high to wait for a market solution here.
- yters 6y agoOr a market solution will be decisive if it gets to that point. The courts broke up Microsoft, and it's not like that hurt them at all.