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> I do think we’ve entered a grey area of rights. > By centralizing human communication like Facebook has, they’ve placed themselves in the funky place of bein
by maeln 1y ago
> I do think we’ve entered a grey area of rights.
> By centralizing human communication like Facebook has, they’ve placed themselves in the funky place of being the arbiter for communication through their social graph. You don’t own your audience, they do. You don’t have direct to audience communication (even if your audience is just your friends and family!) - they do.
Respectfully mate, how is that any different than radio, TV and newspaper before ?
If anything, it is far better now, you have at least many platform to choose from and you can host your own.
- _Algernon_ 1y agoThe comparison to letters and/or phone calls is more relevant in this context than radio and TV.
- r3trohack3r 1y agoIt’s not. The internet is objectively better than broadcast mediums. But it’s a quirky bug we’ve discovered in scaling the architecture of the web that we are going to address. Soon you’re going to own your own content distribution channels.
- throwaway48476 1y agoWe understood the danger of centralization with radio and newspapers, that's why there was a limitation on how many stations one individual/company could own.