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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by Joeri on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @12:32PM (#17708118)
If you think you can legislate the world away from big data and data mining through legislation you are terribly naive. At most it will punish a few surface level players

If you think you can legislate the world of crime away through criminal law you are terribly naive. At most it will punish a few criminals here or there while the massive crime industry continues to flourish.

Just because something bad is hard to regulate doesn’t mean you just give up. Besides, saying decentralization is the solution is even more naive, because centralized systems are more convenient and people prefer convenience to privacy.

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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by binomialxenon on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @01:57PM (#17708907)
Sure, centralized services are popular, but there's nothing unrealistic about decentralized/federated ones, it's not a pipe dream like the blockchain craze. The main difference in end-user convenience is the difference between "@username" and "@username:server.net".
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