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All of those problems can be fixed by legal means. We cannot expect the market to regulate itself into a healthy competitive balance. Force sites to implement
by paulryanrogers 2y ago
All of those problems can be fixed by legal means. We cannot expect the market to regulate itself into a healthy competitive balance.
Force sites to implement baseline standards and not rely on non-standard features. Disallow major web players from pushing their own browsers and from relying on their own browser's non-standard features. Permanently require browser ballots on all widely used consumer OS's. Heavily fine violators consistently. Use the money to support an independent standards body.
Naive users will get a random, standards compliant browser. This throng will help prevent sites with no concern for the law from testing against only one instead of against the standard.
- erremerre 2y agoThere has been 30/40 years of internet, and no legal battle has manage to get anything on that regard. I would even say, topics on the internet with a lot of lobbying, such as pirating software/media, in the same timeframe, has managed to get absolutely nothing done. I am afraid, it would not be possible to regulate legally.
- paulryanrogers 2y agoYet regulations have happened and continue to, just different ones of varying ... quality/purpose. Even among preservation/piracy there have been moderately successful efforts. Apathy will not bring change. Only speech and action.
- zamadatix 2y agoThe only thing that resulted in a decline in piracy was an increase in convenience, simplicity, and speed brought by on demand services (cloud game downloads and subscription passes, streaming video and music services, ebook/software subscriptions through app stores). The many billions spent per year in lobbying for deep seated laws like DMCA or equivalents never brought any meaningful change to the problem because the root of the issue was not solved by more restrictions.