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Who are the people who should be in charge of the internet?
by abirch 5y ago
Who are the people who should be in charge of the internet?
- AnthonyMouse 5y agoNo one, that's why we need antitrust to break up monopolies and decentralize power.
- nickff 5y ago"No one" sounds a lot like 'the government'.
- AnthonyMouse 5y agoA government rule that says anyone with market power can't have censorship power isn't so much picking winners and losers as preventing someone else from doing it. And it isn't preventing useful filtering, because someone without market power can do it. There are maybe better ways to fix this. Like get rid of DMCA 1201 and the other laws that cause tech markets to consolidate like this to begin with. But given the choice between this or nothing, this.
- djbebs 5y agoYeah that's the excuse government always gives. It was never true before, and it's not true now.
- AnthonyMouse 5y agoIt's not true if you can actually do the better thing. But I don't see a "repeal DMCA 1201" bill going up for a vote this year. So I'll take this and try to get that next year.
- andreilys 5y agoWould this apply to foreign companies like Bytedance (TikTok), Alibaba, and Tencent? If so, how do you see the US gov being able to enforce anti-trust breakups of foreign companies?
- AnthonyMouse 5y agoIt doesn't matter where the headquarters is, it matters where they're doing business. Unless Bytedance doesn't want to get any money from US advertisers and Alibaba doesn't want to do business with US customers.