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Here is the text of the act. https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3816/text https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3816...
by ghastmaster 4y ago
Here is the text of the act.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3816/text https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3816...
The privacy and "surveillance" aspect only comes into play because these large platforms can pick and choose who they allow on their service, denying end users access to privacy protecting services.
I use some of these services on big platforms. Right now, I do not see a need for legislation to fix the problem. I hate to see more legislation and regulation in general. Duckduckgo and Proton are doing great. In twenty years it is totally possible that they become the next Apple or Google. They can create the competition and allow users to make the choice. I would love to see a ProtonPhone.
- fsflover 4y ago> I would love to see a ProtonPhone. Depending on what you mean here, it might already exist: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5 https://puri.sm/products/librem-5.
- nilespotter 4y agoI really want to try this... but at $700, not $2000.
- fsflover 4y agoIt's $1300 for the standard version, not $2000. Alternatively, there is less performant https://pine64.org/pinephone https://pine64.org/pinephone.
- nilespotter 4y agoAh, I was looking at Librem 5 USA. Normal Librem 5 has a 52 week lead time.
- franczesko 4y ago"I hate to see more legislation and regulation in general" With the same approach we would still have child labor in factories...
- amelius 4y agoAnd no net neutrality.
- somenameforme 4y agoNet neutrality was terminated in the US at the end of 2017, and this remains the case. An executive order in 2021 did not change this.
- belfalas 4y agoI used to think this was a compelling argument. Unfortunately, child labor is really good economics. So is slavery. An economics textbook I studied at university calculated the value of a slave in the US before the Civil War. Conclusion? “Perhaps it is a good thing they did not try to quantize back then. Slavery was profitable.”
- ghastmaster 4y agoAt the micro level it may sound like good economics. Slavery is not good macro economics. For example, slaves in the US south were intelligent human beings that had they been in the free market with their ideas and efficient use of time and labor, the south would have advanced beyond plantations at a similar rate to the north prior to the US civil war.
- folkrav 4y agoWe should tell this to Dubai's migrant workers.
- troon-lover 4y ago