Re:You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Sect...
by pdonis on Saturday January 09, 2021 @03:05PM
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> I personally think that the answer is to standardize terms-of-service documents and to make them into real legal statements that both the website visitor and owner can make claims regarding, and that those statements be registered with a federal agency.
In other words, you want to create more regulations that websites have to abide by. All that does is favor the big players even more than they're favored now.
> Those requirements would either be too onerous to run the walled gardens of Web 2.0 at scale
No, they would be too onerous for any websites other than the huge walled gardens to meet. All you're doing is setting up another form of regulatory capture.
> or the big dogs would be forced to really bureaucratize or democratize
Or they'll just buy the regulations that favor them, the same way they do now.
In other words, you want to create more regulations that websites have to abide by. All that does is favor the big players even more than they're favored now.
> Those requirements would either be too onerous to run the walled gardens of Web 2.0 at scale
No, they would be too onerous for any websites other than the huge walled gardens to meet. All you're doing is setting up another form of regulatory capture.
> or the big dogs would be forced to really bureaucratize or democratize
Or they'll just buy the regulations that favor them, the same way they do now.