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Precedent? What about Microsoft being forced not to cripple browsers other than IE in windows? That's the most prominent recent example. Just because it doesn'
by betwixthewires 5y ago
Precedent? What about Microsoft being forced not to cripple browsers other than IE in windows? That's the most prominent recent example.
Just because it doesn't make sense to you doesn't mean it makes no sense at all.
- endisneigh 5y agoThat's not the same as what the parent said at all. When has the government ever forced one company to offer data to another one?
- ancientsofmumu 5y agoThe Telecommunications Act of 1996 did just that, forcing data interoperability between the carriers. Thus, another key provision of the 1996 Act sets obligations for incumbent carriers and new entrants to interconnect their networks with one another, imposing additional requirements on the incumbents because they might desire to restrict competitive entry by denying such interconnection or by setting terms, conditions, and rates that could undermine the ability of the new entrants to compete. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
- endisneigh 5y agoThere's certainly no consensus that what it did was good, and interconnection isn't the same as forcing one provider to literally give data to another.
- webmaven 5y ago> There's certainly no consensus that what it did was good, and interconnection isn't the same as forcing one provider to literally give data to another. How about number portability?
- betwixthewires 5y agoWhat about just forcing them to open the API to search competitors?
- srcreigh 5y agoReally, government loosening control of web browsers in windows is an indirect way of forcing MS to give data to other companies. With hindsight MS could have made all the same arguments we hear today about protecting users from invasive privacy violations involved in web browsers.