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Re:The End of Safe Harbor and a Scary Path Forward by pdonis on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @11:32PM (#10344073)
> it's a concern that the Internet won't be global anymore

Why not? Facebook, or some other centralized cloud service, is not the only way you have of using the Internet.

Re:The End of Safe Harbor and a Scary Path Forward by kijin on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @01:37AM (#10344340)
Exactly.

If the end of Safe Harbor spells disaster for all those centralized cloud services, that might actually turn out to be a good thing for the Internet in the long term.

We often think of decentralized peer-to-peer networks as a rebellious technology, something we need to develop in order to evade oppressive laws in an increasingly dystopian world. But what if decentralization becomes the only legal way to create and maintain a global social network? That would be ironic but also deeply satisfying.

My only worry is that this ruling might not spell enough of a disaster to shake up the VCs' faith in the centralized cloud.

Re:The End of Safe Harbor and a Scary Path Forward by the_mitsuhiko on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @02:40AM (#10344542)
I don't feel going back to the old days of borders everywhere is a good idea.
Re:The End of Safe Harbor and a Scary Path Forward by spaceSub on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @05:02AM (#10344920)
In the face on inaceptable laws and regulations it can't be helped. We can't just wipe any political discourse with this sentence.