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I want to see court-mandated open source and federation. Doubt it'd ever happen though...

• splistud 5y ago
  What other private property are you in favor of taking from others?
  • akimball 5y ago
    Anything built by appropriating other people’s property and/or by depredation of the commons.
  • emptyparadise 5y ago
    I'll settle on just enough to have a viable healthy, open and free tech ecosystem. My evil regime will even let you keep the rest - as long as you play along nicely and interoperate and federate!
• dane-pgp 5y ago
  Something like court-mandated federation is not completely out of the question in the EU, given that the GDPR requires "data portability" between digital services, including "the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible."[0] I suspect a big American corporation like Facebook would have a hard time persuading an EU court that it wasn't technically feasible for it to automatically duplicate your Facebook posts onto a competing Fediverse instance where you have an account, and the court could even decide that the "natural" technological implementation would be to broadcast your Facebook posts directly to your friends across the Fediverse. Sadly the language of the GDPR seems to only mandate the export of personal data from the site where it is stored, and not grant the complementary right to have data imported. This means Facebook wouldn't have to show you the posts of any of your Fediverse friends, and it also wouldn't export your Facebook friends' posts to be viewable on your Fediverse account (unless they also had a Fediverse account and chose to export those posts themselves). [0] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/ https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/