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What sort of regulation would you like to see? I've heard folks suggest making it criminal to share or sell user data, for instance, which would be the death o
by dleslie 6y ago
What sort of regulation would you like to see?
I've heard folks suggest making it criminal to share or sell user data, for instance, which would be the death of freemium services.
- gfodor 6y agoI haven't thought much about the lower level network stacks but I think social media platforms of a certain size ought to have certain legal requirements to do things that incentivize interoperability or allow competing platforms to emerge (perhaps non-commercial ones.) Primarily things around APIs and data formats.
- dleslie 6y agoSo a regulatory body that would enforce secure, private, and open sharing of user data between services at the user's behest? Sounds good to me.
- gfodor 6y agoYep pretty much. If you support this, you should know that if this ever gets legs despite its surface level appeal you will see a lot of people not supporting it, because it's exactly the kind of thing that led to Cambridge Analytica. So that'll be a good time to truly ask yourself which side of this tradeoff is the one you want to make.