Re:Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger
by chii on Thursday February 14, 2019 @08:21PM
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What's needed is not antitrust laws, but interoperability laws (or, construe them as antitrust laws).
If there's interoperability between networks, then no one network can become dominant via momentum only, and has to actually provide value to users, and prevents lock-in.
Re:Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger
by chrischen on Thursday February 14, 2019 @08:25PM
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what's the point of the internet if, due to network effects, everyone is using the facebook app?
Re:Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger
by thisisweirdok on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:41AM
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Which network effects are locking you in to using Facebook and not self-publishing, or using Twitter, reddit, hackernews, Medium, Tumblr, or any other website?
If you're operating a business you fundamentally need that control.
The platform you're talking about it the internet. It already exists. You can use it to say whatever you want within law. If you use someone else's servers to do so they can boot you, just like I can kick someone out of my house.