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Ok, lets put our entire communications into the hands of a handful of corporations. What could go wrong.
by iagovar 6y ago
Ok, lets put our entire communications into the hands of a handful of corporations. What could go wrong.
- John23832 6y agoThat’s not what I said at all. It’s just gabs responsibility to maintain their standards on their own.
- iagovar 6y agoBut it's the implication, because you can say the same about every big corp competitor, and even about big corps depending on when you draw the boundaries.
- John23832 6y agoIt’s not the implication at all. If you believe in startups growing into large businesses (which we have numerous examples of in tech), then that implication is obviously untrue.
- throwaway894345 6y agoI believe the parent is (somewhat inartfully) talking about presently established players (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, etc) growing into large businesses and then greasing the pole behind them by lobbying for legislation that they can relatively easy afford, but which would be a prohibitive expense for upstarts.
- salawat 6y agoIt's called pulling up the ladder behind you, and every social media platform started as a comms hub fro sexual exploitation of children and human trafficking as soon as people figured out how to use it. Yet when you kick in regulatory measures that everyone else implements as a pre-req of doing business, then you, as the governing body, must accept responsibility when a particular private actor is being threatened with existential compliance failures because tge licensor of your reference impl doesn't like the color of said private actor's business philosophy. Private actors are extensions of government, and in large part proportional to the degree of centralization within a vertical. It's about time more people started taking this into account.