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Why is social media problematic? Banks are networked and all speak SWIFT. Stock exchanges are networked and all speak FIX. Tier-1 ISPs are networked and all
by rmrfstar 6y ago
Why is social media problematic?
Banks are networked and all speak SWIFT.
Stock exchanges are networked and all speak FIX.
Tier-1 ISPs are networked and all speak IP.
Why can't we make that happen for information infrastructure of a certain size and importance?
- ghaff 6y agoWhat's probably most problematic is that some sort of federated/interoperable/regulated set of social media sites probably means that one governmental or quasi-governmental entity still needs to make calls about the thing that's actually the real flash point on Facebook. Namely, what sort of posts should be allowed and disallowed.
- rmrfstar 6y agoWhy? The question of America's apparent desire for official censorship is orthogonal to the question of monopoly. And even if it wasn't, people would be a lot more likely to get their preferred brand of censorship from whichever 1/7th Facebook they chose to use.