Re:Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”
by gfodor on Friday January 08, 2021 @02:06PM
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I haven't thought much about the lower level network stacks but I think social media platforms of a certain size ought to have certain legal requirements to do things that incentivize interoperability or allow competing platforms to emerge (perhaps non-commercial ones.) Primarily things around APIs and data formats.
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Re:Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”
by dleslie on Friday January 08, 2021 @02:29PM
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So a regulatory body that would enforce secure, private, and open sharing of user data between services at the user's behest? Sounds good to me.
Re:Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”
by gfodor on Friday January 08, 2021 @02:40PM
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Yep pretty much. If you support this, you should know that if this ever gets legs despite its surface level appeal you will see a lot of people not supporting it, because it's exactly the kind of thing that led to Cambridge Analytica. So that'll be a good time to truly ask yourself which side of this tradeoff is the one you want to make.