“I hope for a return to sanity and open standards. The alternative is heavy regulated monopolies, no government is going to allow this situation to go for long,

“I hope for a return to sanity and open standards. The alternative is heavy regulated monopolies, no government is going to allow this situation to go for long, like the telecommunications industry. And, that does not work so well.” I do hope for heavily regulated and accountable monopolies. Open standards what for? The current internet doesn’t differ from electricity or water; it’s not a network running on top of the phone network, but a commodity by itself. You cannot avoid hardware manufactures, so let’s stop to argue idealistically about a technological solution to a political problem. My current view is “the more people in WhatsApp, the more power for states to rule” –so spent your time caring of your institutions and not creating utopian technological alternatives; look at the Pinboard’s guy: ACT.