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Author here. I am talking to both. Programmers should set the rules and impose them on their empoyers or the "tech industrialists" won't accept them.
by gavinhoward 2y ago
Author here.
I am talking to both. Programmers should set the rules and impose them on their empoyers or the "tech industrialists" won't accept them.
- jwmcq 2y agoIndustry-led regulation has never worked in the entire history of the world.
- plorkyeran 2y agoIndustry-led content regulation has been very effective at staving off legal regulation in the United States. The MPA rating system and ESRB are very imperfect but nonetheless are success stories.
- jwmcq 2y agoOkay, I'll give you that. Let me rephrase: Industry-led regulation can work, in industries that won't kill anyone or even realistically lose anyone a bunch of money for non-compliance, if-and-only-if government regulation exists as a real and powerful enough alternative to make it stick.
- gavinhoward 2y agoYes, but if we already have regulations, governments may be lazy enough to simply put force of law behind our regulations.
- einpoklum 2y agoWhen we have a social revolution and workers control the production of goods and services, then we will set the rules. Unfortunately, for now, we are forced to bear the rules imposed on us. Like having malware like CrowdStrike software installed on our computers, making them slower and sometimes dysfunctional. But now that you mention it... if software companies were more densely unionized in more of the developed world, especially in the US; and if those would be independent and membership-controlled unions, more like the IWW and less like UAW, SEIU and such - then maybe that would have been more realistically possible and not in some far away future.