Re:Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's ...
by mavdi on Sunday April 07, 2019 @11:11PM
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Yup. It’s a hard problem to solve while keeping the business profitable. But so is safety in mining, aviation, oil drilling, medicine etc. Some tech companies won’t be viable businesses once regulations kick in. Good riddance.
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Re:Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's ...
by o10449366 on Monday April 08, 2019 @01:12AM
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There's something hilariously ironic in saying that tech companies should be treated like mining, aviation, and medical companies. How many natural disasters have the biggest mining companies caused and what repercussions have they faced? Do you really think Boeing is going to dissolve or that the pharmaceutical companies that kill tens of thousands each year by selling opioids and bankrupt millions more are actually held accountable by government regulations? It's all a circus show.
Re:Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's ...
by laughinghan on Monday April 08, 2019 @01:51AM
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Just to clarify, is it your position that the FAA, FDA, and OSMRE are circus shows and that abolishing the FAA would make aviation safer, abolishing the FDA would make medicine safer, and abolishing the OSMRE would make mining safer?
Or are you saying those agencies don't do enough to hold accountable the companies that caused all those problems? Because that doesn't seem like an argument against regulating tech companies. That seems like an argument for regulating tech companies, and those other companies, more strictly.
Re:Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's ...
by stale2002 on Monday April 08, 2019 @02:37AM
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No. He is basically saying that as long as we have these much larger problems, we should all of our time trying to fix those, instead of wasting time and money on a problem that is 1 thousand times less serious of a problem.
If social media starts killing 10s of thousands of people every year, then we should start talking about FAA, or FDA style regulations. But as long as that number is measured in dozens of people, we shouldn't be wasting billions worrying about it.
Lets take that moral outrage of yours and spend it on something a bit more productive, shall we?
Re:Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's ...
by baroffoos on Sunday April 07, 2019 @11:20PM
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Are you willing to pay someone for x hours a day every day to monitor and approve everything you post online? If your job is livestreaming then you will need to pay someone almost full time to watch you work.
Re:Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's ...
by oconnor663 on Sunday April 07, 2019 @11:17PM
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Rules like that would cripple the open web. You can't only expect them to apply to unpopular companies.