Re:The Platform Is the Enemy
by BlueTemplar on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:30AM
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Indeed. But with platforms being privately owned and centralized, the scale at which they start being problematic is fairly small.
The likes of Facebook/Twitter/YouTube have blown past this limit a long time ago.
At this point it's too late for regulation. You can't effectively break them down. Nationalizing them is pretty much unfeasible since they have so many international users. So the only solution left seems to be to shut them down completely, and let the competition do their job (it won't take long, considering Internet timescales). But maybe before consider what kind of regulations these competitors will have to live under. (Maybe a built-in time limit before they are shut down in turn, and the cycle starts all over again ?)
The likes of Facebook/Twitter/YouTube have blown past this limit a long time ago.
At this point it's too late for regulation. You can't effectively break them down. Nationalizing them is pretty much unfeasible since they have so many international users. So the only solution left seems to be to shut them down completely, and let the competition do their job (it won't take long, considering Internet timescales). But maybe before consider what kind of regulations these competitors will have to live under. (Maybe a built-in time limit before they are shut down in turn, and the cycle starts all over again ?)