We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself

Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by amelius on Monday November 20, 2017 @07:58AM (#15739564)

My preferred solution would therefore be along these lines:

- Universities develop social media algorithms that are provenly secure and respectful of privacy. "Federation" should handle issues of trust over network partitions.

- Governments (not a single one) decide if they want to provide computing infrastructure for said algorithms. Alternatively, users could host their own social networks or partitions thereof.

- Big companies provide hardware and maintenance. (And that's all they do. I.e., hands off of our valuable data).

Basically, that's a lot like how the internet functioned when it just started (Universities and DARPA developing the concepts, and companies doing just hardware).

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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by varelse on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:26AM (#15740520)

As someone who spent a (wasted) decade in academia finding out a lot of published research was faked, keep your academic hands off of my business models. And keep your government hands off of my algorithms. FB stupidity and greed aside, I still trust the free market over its less-appealing alternatives.

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