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> Activities that could lead to tougher sanctions include companies preventing users from switching platforms or forcing customers to use only one service, he a

> Activities that could lead to tougher sanctions include companies preventing users from switching platforms or forcing customers to use only one service, he added. Rather than breaking up the US companies, a more realistic approach would be to require that users on US social networks be able to friend/follow people on competing social networks, using open standards (i.e. the Fediverse). If necessary, the regulation could be limited to just EU-based user accounts on US social networks, and any account on an EU-based and registered competing social network. That would go some way towards addressing the security/spam concerns that US social networks might raise, as well as adding an onerous bureaucratic process which incumbents can capture, and give the EU politicians the sense of media control that they want.

riffic 6y ago
> Rather than breaking up the US companies, a more realistic approach would be to require that users on US social networks be able to friend/follow people on competing social networks, using open standards (i.e. the Fediverse). I think this attacks the problem from the wrong perspective. I think a more realistic approach would be to require institutions which use public funds (government entities, community groups, schools, libraries, et cetera) to adopt these open standards themselves and to bootstrap their necessary infrastructure to broadcast messages into this new platform. Everyone in the public sector has a Twitter account, a Facebook account, an Instagram account, ad infinitum, these public organizations need to be mandated to build out their own social infra (or to buy from a competent provider exposing these services in the same way they'd buy email and web hosting).