Senate panel approves antitrust bill restricting big tech platforms

Re:Senate panel approves antitrust bill restricting big tech... by EMIRELADERO on Friday January 21, 2022 @01:38AM (#30019987)

I think the best solution here would be to outright disallow (by law) companies from manufacturing devices in a way in which they retain more control over them even after the sale to the end user has been completed.

They can have either the same level of control, less, but never more. As it stands right now, Apple and pretty much all Android manufacturers have more control (Yes, I said Android too. Good luck trying to mod the bootloader itself or gaining access to the TEE)

This would be a great thing because that way you don't force any company to modify their app plattform or change their normal user-facing software in any way, yet those who wish so can do with the device whatever they want in the same fashion the manufacturer could before (and even after) the sale.

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Re:Senate panel approves antitrust bill restricting big tech... by bzzzt on Friday January 21, 2022 @08:30AM (#30023201)

This has never been about users having control over their own devices (that ship sailed since proprietary software became a thing). This is about big corps fighting about money trying to influence public opinion and legislation.

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Re:Senate panel approves antitrust bill restricting big tech... by EMIRELADERO on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:42PM (#30030380)

In my opinion, proprietary software doesn't mean you don't have control, as long as you can choose to not run that software and still make use of the hardware. It's not proprietariness that is the issue, it's the forced execution of code the owner does not approve, or even worse, the outright refusal to run the code that the owner does approve of.

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