Re:The rise of the corporate colossus is a giant problem
by sqeaky on Thursday September 15, 2016 @06:46PM
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Standards happen so slowly. By the time people agreed on what should be in this, that agreement would be antiquated.
We need something like what happened with OpenID and Oauth. OpenID may be gone, but one company made a few bucks on it and OAuth is largely inspired by it. Someone needs to find a way to make a buck moving profile data around in a meaningful way then that becomes a de-facto standard that gets copied and used all over.
Then the government can regulate something that already exists rather than regulate something shitty into existence.
We need something like what happened with OpenID and Oauth. OpenID may be gone, but one company made a few bucks on it and OAuth is largely inspired by it. Someone needs to find a way to make a buck moving profile data around in a meaningful way then that becomes a de-facto standard that gets copied and used all over.
Then the government can regulate something that already exists rather than regulate something shitty into existence.