Re:YouTube rolls out new tools to help you stop watching
by dredmorbius on Friday May 11, 2018 @03:34PM
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So long as rent-seeking and externalities exist, "profit" is by no means aligned with increasing common weal.
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Re:YouTube rolls out new tools to help you stop watching
by mulmen on Friday May 11, 2018 @05:52PM
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I should have been more clear in my original comment. I have no opposition to regulation and consider it a crucial part of any capitalist system. I disagree with the idea that companies should be expected to make these moral value judgements themselves.
Re:YouTube rolls out new tools to help you stop watching
by dredmorbius on Friday May 11, 2018 @06:23PM
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Gresham's Law details why a regulatory framework, rather than voluntary action, is required.
That firms are able to dismantle, oppose, co-opt, or avoid such frameworks is very much part of the problem.
I'd like to see vast changes in liability and increased veil-piercing abilities.