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Why does the size of the company matter?
by themitigating 4y ago
Why does the size of the company matter?
- toomuchtodo 4y agoResources available (fiat and people) for meeting regulatory requirements and the relative burden imposed by regulation. There are regulatory risk and compliance teams (finance specially, but also in other spaces) larger than most startups, with mid to high 8 figure budgets. Meta can afford meeting regulatory requirements imposed by nation states.
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- hackinthebochs 4y agoAside from burden on the company, the cost to the user from being arbitrarily locked out of a facebook property is much greater than some random start up.
- arnvald 4y agoBecause of the impact their actions have on people's lives. If my local barber tells me "don't come back here ever again", I'll find another barber within 15min walk from my place. If Facebook bans me, I might lose a way to communicate with hundreds of people, I might lose access to managing my business and talk to my clients. And often there might be very few viable alternatives. As Facebook and other large companies become dominant in certain areas, their responsibility should grow, too. And banning users based on some algorithmic detection, without the ability to contact human customer support to understand and fix the situation, should not be acceptable.
- themitigating 4y agoI just don't want more government regulation, we have enough
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- d1str0 4y agoWere you equally against the FAA regulating the use of drones around airports?
- themitigating 4y agoNo, because that's for safety.
- otterley 4y agoWhat’s a viable alternative?
- themitigating 4y agoDon't use whatsapp
- otterley 4y agoWhat should people use instead that is free and easy to use, has the same features WhatsApp does, and is ubiquitous? Realistic answers only, please.
- rglullis 4y ago> And often there might be very few viable alternatives. There are alternatives. If we don't want Facebook in general to monopolize every aspect of our lives, we need to actively refuse being assimilated by the Borg and prioritize these alternatives.
- ymolodtsov 4y agoI like that Hacker News idealism. Ok, your small online store is banned from advertising on Facebook and Instagram. What will you do?
- rglullis 4y agoMy idealistic answer would be "go back to the drawing board to create a business is not built on someone else's land." Do you mean advertising or keeping an internet presence? If you mean "internet presence", I'd would use one of the numerous site builders and I would create a pixelfed and mastodon instances to publish content. If you mean advertising: I'd write a post here about how my account was banned without justification...
- ymolodtsov 4y agoNone of these options let you change the status quo. It's like arguing about tipping. Whether you like it or not it exists and the social norm doesn't change because of your individual decisions.
- rglullis 4y agoYou don't need to change the status quo. You just need to stop contributing to it if you believe that it is harmful to you and you are okay with the consequences of your choices. I am not walking around with a soapbox telling everyone they should leave FB and Instagram. Instead, I am simply not participating in it and hoping that this can serve as an example for others.
- nycdatasci 4y agoIf the value of a social graph with N users is ~N^2. The damage done by restricting access is similarly non-linear.
- layer8 4y agoBecause the larger the company, the more they should be able to afford it.