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Unregulated winner take all effects. Too many acquisitions - not enough competition. Giant companies providing market leading services at 3+ layers, increasing
by srcreigh 5y ago
Unregulated winner take all effects. Too many acquisitions - not enough competition. Giant companies providing market leading services at 3+ layers, increasing startup costs, enabling anti competitive behaviour.
However I believe the true reason is geopolitical. The entire digital market is simply the best espionage system. If the US govt had a better way to dominate other countries, they would use it instead, and the internet would improve.
Dark patterns in digital services are not just about greed. They give the US government greater power which translates to increased protection of its citizens.
What could be the solution? Tax loopholes to funnel money into open source code to compete at the govt's expense? Building a better geopolitical power system so they get off tech's lawn?
Realistically, it's probably to invest more in open source services and encryption tools, self hosting tools, proxies. Open source capital ownership governance model.
- Hnrobert42 5y ago> Dark patterns in digital services are not just about greed. They give the US government greater power which translates to increased protection of its citizens. What?
- srcreigh 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29718254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29718254
- Hnrobert42 5y agoA link without any context isn’t a helpful response.
- srcreigh 5y agoThe link is evidence that other people also see US tech as American global espionage system. Do you have any thoughts about it?
- jrmg 5y agoAm I understanding correctly that you think that, for example, ‘sign up for our newsletter!’ modals exist to allow the US government to get more data on people?
- eimrine 5y agoHow about KYC/AML (if you like cryptocurrencies)? And why it became so complicated to register an e-mail or account in messengers account or web-page in social networks without phone number? I have lost few really great friends because I've lost an access to my phone (literally burned in fire with a sim-card) bonded to the telegram account, for example. Also, I am really suffer for neediness to have a smartphone for daily needs like ordering a taxi instead of just to phone and to pay cash. These examples are just from top of my head, there are plenty more.
- srcreigh 5y agoIt's a side effect. Govt supported espionage monopolies (FB/Google) -> decreased competition and talent pool -> small services are worse for having less competition.