My dream of the great unbundling

Re:My dream of the great unbundling by petermcneeley on Saturday April 10, 2021 @12:15PM (#26762555)

Not a very good or coherent article. I almost wonder if it was written by a bot. After a random jumble of sentences we have this naïve cry for help: "If you’re a product manager working on a feed or search interface inside of a giant tech company ..Could you help your users spend one hour a year learning about what’s coming for the world, climate-wise, with a small dose of civics to go with it?"

Moloch doesnt work that way. You cant fight Moloch while at the same time being one of his fingers.

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Re:My dream of the great unbundling by ergot_vacation on Saturday April 10, 2021 @01:07PM (#26763060)

Unfortunately there seem to be a LOT of people that think this way. "Now that these companies are so powerful, they can use all that power to benefit humanity! You're not like the Dark Lord Mr. Frodo, you can use the Ring's power for good!" It doesn't work like that.

Unlike the author, I ACTUALLY look forward to an "unbundling," to a breakup. The time seems right. Lots of lawsuits in the air, and maybe more importantly, nearly everyone seems to hate and mistrust big tech at this point. The downside is that if it does happen, we'll probably have some ill-conceived gov regulations that half-work and half are a pain in the ass. But we might get some space for actual innovation and competition again, instead of Youtube endlessly redesigning their website and discovering new ways to screw over their users.

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Re:My dream of the great unbundling by mulmen on Saturday April 10, 2021 @04:50PM (#26765013)

> The downside is that if it does happen, we'll probably have some ill-conceived gov regulations that half-work and half are a pain in the ass.

I'm not sure I buy this apathetic cliche. Can we look at history for examples? Say railroads or the phone company? Were those regulations ill conceived?

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Re:My dream of the great unbundling by ksec on Saturday April 10, 2021 @04:19PM (#26764767)

I felt the author feel Tech Giant are too powerful, he wanted to break them up, so he decided to write an article about it with random reasons.

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