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Yeah I don’t know how this will go, but I’m not too optimistic. It feels like one of those situations where we “get exactly what we asked for”. Like those mov
by dceddia 2y ago
Yeah I don’t know how this will go, but I’m not too optimistic.
It feels like one of those situations where we “get exactly what we asked for”. Like those movies with an Evil Genie who delivers on their wishes in the sneakiest way possible. “You wished for $1M, so I burned your house down - but look at all the insurance money you got!”
Or maybe a bit like how everyone wanted their cable bills to be cheaper (“just let me pay for the few channels I watch!”) and what we got was 15 different streaming services at $12/month.
- pretext-1 2y agoWell so far we tried doing nothing and that didn’t work either. We should have at least prevented them from growing so fast via acquisitions but it’s too late for that now.
- asadotzler 2y ago"Let's do nothing then. Let's all just let the megacorporations write their own laws and manage themselves autonomously with no consumer or competition protections at all. Why bother." This is how you sound.
- dceddia 2y agoOh yeah that’s not what I was going for here. Doing things is great. I just hope that they think through the pitfalls and loopholes of whatever they decide to do. I want to avoid the fates the article hinted at, stuff like “since you broke us up, we can’t possibly maintain Chrome for free anymore, that’s gonna be a subscription now”. Another example of this was Apple’s response to being forced to allow alternate app stores, where they added enough fees and restrictions that it was effectively unusable. The spirit of the law (allow anyone to make apps without a gatekeeper and fees) was not what happened.