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The alternative is being disappeared without recourse, if you have to pay 40 bucks when they screw up, it is what it is, and you can make a decision.
by microcolonel 6y ago
The alternative is being disappeared without recourse, if you have to pay 40 bucks when they screw up, it is what it is, and you can make a decision.
- Aeolun 6y agoThat is (morally) wrong on so many levels. It’s basically what regulations were invented for.
- microcolonel 6y agoWhat would your brilliant regulation entail? Forcing companies to publish software for free when their automated systems think it's malware? Could you even summarize a piece of legislation that doesn't amount to "describe Google, then make everything that annoys us about Google illegal for companies fitting that description"?
- thejynxed 6y agoApply anti-trust law as is currently written for starters. Standard Oil and Ma Bell were split for less egregious offenses than we've seen from Alphabet/Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon. In Standard Oil's case, vertical integration across markets was enough, and pretty much everyone in Big Tech is guilty of this.