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Re:A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web S... by K0SM0S on Saturday October 12, 2019 @11:02AM (#21233674)
So I thought/researched/wrote for 10+ years about possible legal frameworks and regulation for the 21st century; and in the end it seems an untenable proposition to 'force' such evolution by way of law, if we look at the actual history of most sectors — energy, construction, steel, media, telco... and now electronics and tech. I mean it's wishful thinking and whatever 'law' ends up being circumvented. Concentration is inevitable.

What does seem to 'work' is the subversion of one sub-market by another, e.g. when we transition from radio to TV, or when began the post-Facebook era. These are technological innovations. Political science taught me one thing: what changes the world is not what we think or say, it's what we do, and the most groundbreaking actions are those who create the everyday things that change our lives in dramatic ways — mobile phones, cars, planes, TV, YouTube, Netflix, Maps, chats, what-you-use.

Ergo, if we want a truly "fair" network, I think there's no other way but to make one. A real innovation that pretty much owns the market of inter-human communication, eventually. Something the magnitude of netscape/javascript at the end of the 1990s, or SMS, or Facebook versus everything else before, or streaming video and audio... a real shift in 'what you can do' or the way you do it.

Re:A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web S... by fauigerzigerk on Saturday October 12, 2019 @11:37AM (#21233944)
If it is impossible to prevent concentration (and I don't believe it is), then oligopolists will have to accept some legal obligations that smaller companies don't have.

It is simply unacceptable that you can be kicked off extremely dominant platforms without explanation or recourse and often without even getting your data back.

There has to be a higher barrier to obliterating someone's livelihood.

Re:A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web S... by ethbro on Saturday October 12, 2019 @08:39PM (#21237399)
I think K0SM0S is making a more "turtles all the way down" point.

In that concentration is inevitable, not exempting any possible legal framework.

So government / legal isn't a solution, only radical innovation.