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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by alex_duf on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:41AM (#25672223)
I think similarly to how europe has forced Banks to interoperate by making them write a protocol that can interoperate, governments need to force social media companies to write down a protocol and use it.

I like the analogy with utilities, but the issue is that we pay for electricity, but we don't pay for our usage of social media. As long as that's true we can difficulty do what I'm suggesting above

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by simfoo on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:52AM (#25672377)
Exactly that. There needs to be a mandated federation protocol for instant messenger apps that have lets say > 10 million user in the EU.
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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by vinay427 on Friday January 08, 2021 @02:41AM (#25682523)
I think India's Unified Payments Interface is a better analogy here. From what I understand (as an outsider, so based only on what I've read) it provides a universal API for mobile applications to interface with banks, essentially standardizing the federation of bank transfers. Therefore, your account at bank X can be used to pay an account at bank Y for some service that uses app Z.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by CRConrad on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:25PM (#25740470)
Why would that be a better analogy than the European system that allows you to do the exact same thing?
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