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Re:Who Will Rein in Facebook? Challengers Are Lining Up by tdy721 on Sunday October 29, 2017 @06:44PM (#15581949)
We are not free to provide services to other devices on our own devices. We can "do whatever we want" if we buy into the consumption paradigm. If we start to distribute content, we find ourselves liable...

I really hope I'm wrong here. But try installing an HTTP server on your phone. The network does not provide the required environment to make this possible. Why? It's not the hardware.

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Re:Who Will Rein in Facebook? Challengers Are Lining Up by chatmasta on Sunday October 29, 2017 @08:56PM (#15582456)
You can run an http server on your phone. If it’s not reachable from the internet, the problem is the limited number of IPv4 addresses, not some conspiracy against computing freedom.
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Re:Who Will Rein in Facebook? Challengers Are Lining Up by cabaalis on Sunday October 29, 2017 @06:58PM (#15582017)
> We are not free to provide services to other devices on our own devices.

Of course you are. I'm speaking from an American perspective, but this is the very foundation of liberty.

> The network does not provide the required environment to make this possible. Why? It's not the hardware.

I do not own the network that my phone operates on, and the people that do have decided to control what they allow on it. I can start my own network and attempt to compete.

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Re:Who Will Rein in Facebook? Challengers Are Lining Up by gowld on Sunday October 29, 2017 @09:25PM (#15582544)
In USA those networks were built largely by government granted monopolies to right of way
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Re:Who Will Rein in Facebook? Challengers Are Lining Up by tdy721 on Sunday October 29, 2017 @06:45PM (#15581955)
It's not the government either...
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