Re:The Google-Facebook Duopoly Threatens Diversity of Thought
by nickik on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @09:09PM
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> Hmm, well to me it seems like the that last option is the worst of the bunch. And that's what we get when we don't regulate at all - unsupervised, undemocratic, corporate bureaucracies making decisions that critically affect our lives.
Your implaying that state burocracy and markets produce the same outcome. That is 100% false, as both systems have totally different feedback mechanism. It is a totally different thing if you are a open soruce standards commity that has to actually attrackt people rather then a burocracy that has no insentive to attrackt people.
The market process is guided by the choices of all the players, and this is why even in a bad case the deversity will be higher then in any government run situation. Standards can be overcome, thrown away, upgraded depending on the chaning needs people.
We already have the largly unregulated market and in that market we have lots of standartisation both completly open and industry standards. Open Source software is winning in many places. New spaces are being opened up for standards, like RISC-V. Yes its not perfect, but you have to realize that you are risking everything we have by giving some government burocracy (and a US burocracy at that) the complete power over the internet.
There are good and well studied reason why this approche is better then the political processes I have mentioned.
> Why do you need every detail of a plan to see if something is good? You want us to quote from law journals for you? Why don't you just admit you don't like the idea - don't pretend that if only we could lay out a plan you'd be for it, your disagreement isn't in implementation it's in foundation.
If you don't have even a basic idea what the scope and power of your policy is, how are you gone compare it to anything else? I am a consequentialist, if you can make a reasonable argument that your burocarcy can significantly improve on the current 'anarchy' approch then I'm happy to listen to your argument.
We actually do already have lots of government promoted standards, and if they are any indication then
I would be running into a different direction as fast as I can.
Your implaying that state burocracy and markets produce the same outcome. That is 100% false, as both systems have totally different feedback mechanism. It is a totally different thing if you are a open soruce standards commity that has to actually attrackt people rather then a burocracy that has no insentive to attrackt people.
The market process is guided by the choices of all the players, and this is why even in a bad case the deversity will be higher then in any government run situation. Standards can be overcome, thrown away, upgraded depending on the chaning needs people.
We already have the largly unregulated market and in that market we have lots of standartisation both completly open and industry standards. Open Source software is winning in many places. New spaces are being opened up for standards, like RISC-V. Yes its not perfect, but you have to realize that you are risking everything we have by giving some government burocracy (and a US burocracy at that) the complete power over the internet.
There are good and well studied reason why this approche is better then the political processes I have mentioned.
> Why do you need every detail of a plan to see if something is good? You want us to quote from law journals for you? Why don't you just admit you don't like the idea - don't pretend that if only we could lay out a plan you'd be for it, your disagreement isn't in implementation it's in foundation.
If you don't have even a basic idea what the scope and power of your policy is, how are you gone compare it to anything else? I am a consequentialist, if you can make a reasonable argument that your burocarcy can significantly improve on the current 'anarchy' approch then I'm happy to listen to your argument.
We actually do already have lots of government promoted standards, and if they are any indication then I would be running into a different direction as fast as I can.