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Laws need to be updated to account for the network effects of the data lock position, where you, your data, and network are prevented from easily being mobile.
by loceng 6y ago
Laws need to be updated to account for the network effects of the data lock position, where you, your data, and network are prevented from easily being mobile.
Your digital data should be considered to be equivalent to you having built a house, a big asset, but now you have a big choice to make: abandon it because the state is doing some sketchy things that you don't agree with or want to support by the taxes collected, or not.
The lack of data portability, mobility of users, is the only reason Facebook and its leadership could repeatedly be a bad actor and continue to scale as it did; by data portability I also mean that all data should also maintain cross-linking attribution, so if anyone in your network also leaves Facebook to join platform X instead - that data can be imported and aligned, synchronized properly on the other platform so it doesn't get broken. None of the incumbents are going to voluntarily to implement this.
- scarface74 6y agoHave you ever thought that the reason Facebook is successful is because people choose to use it? No one is forced to use social media.
- blocked_again 6y agoLol. Go and read Hooked book. The shitty things Silicon Valley does to keep users addicted to their social media apps would blow your mind. Facebook is a net negative to the society. The reason people are using their products are because they are addicted. Not because it's making their life bettter. It's like drugs. Atleast the drug companies have ethics to not give you some unless you continue paying money. Fucking Facebook want users scrolling their shitty feeds and clicking on notifications all day so that Zuckerberg and VCs can buy more yatchs.
- scarface74 6y agoAnd that could describe, alcohol, weed, sweets, gambling....
- eloisant 6y agoYes, that why those things are either illegal or heavily regulated.
- scarface74 6y agoSweets are heavily regulated?
- blocked_again 6y agoIt's heavily regulated by parents.
- scarface74 6y agoSo now we need the government to treat us all like children who are incapable of making our own rational decisions?
- blocked_again 6y agoYes. A government taking care of the citizens like parents do would be the best case scenario.
- scarface74 6y agoplease tell me you are being sarcastic.
- rmrfstar 6y agoscarface74, I have a labor-saving recommendation for you. Train a GPT-2 on Milton Friedman speeches and Heritage Foundation papers. Let that handle your comments. It will save you some time, and perhaps exhibit a little more civility.
- camgunz 6y agoPeople are sometimes capable of making rational decisions, but there's a whole industry (advertising, maybe you've heard of it) dedicated to working against that. Think of really any common sense regulation: - Can't use leaded gasoline - Can't use asbestos - Must wear a seat belt - Cannot drive while intoxicated If people always behaved well, we wouldn't need laws. They don't, so we do.
- brlewis 6y ago> Have you ever thought that the reason Facebook is successful is because people choose to use it? Yes, I have thought that, before I knew any better. Now I know that Facebook became successful by making people think that other people wanted them to use Facebook. E.g. http://www.krist0ph3r.com/2009/06/reminder-kristopher-invited-you-to-join.html http://www.krist0ph3r.com/2009/06/reminder-kristopher-invite...
- scarface74 6y agoAnd that’s basically advertising 101. I remember being taught that in a marketing class in graduate school back in 2001. https://smallbusiness.chron.com/examples-bandwagon-advertising-propaganda-techniques-17411.html https://smallbusiness.chron.com/examples-bandwagon-advertisi...
- brlewis 6y agoNo, advertising 101 is vague lies like "America's favorite mascara". The more specific lie that "Kristopher invited you to use Facebook" takes it to a new level.
- scarface74 6y agoSo let’s go with Mary Kay and Tupperware....
- brlewis 6y agoAFAIK invitations to Mary Kay and Tupperware parties are not lies. Your friend actually does want you to go.
- scarface74 6y agoI remember way back in the day my parents were invited to a “dinner party”. It wasn’t until they got their that they found out that it was a pitch to some MLM scheme like Mary Kay.