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A comment on FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video Streaming Companies. Parent comment

Re:FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video... by brookst on Friday September 20, 2024 @11:08AM (#41602720)
Well, perpetual motion is also considered unsolvable. Perhaps the right regulation would make it happen?

Or... maybe that line of reasoning isn't super strong.

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Re:FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video... by malfist on Friday September 20, 2024 @11:29AM (#41602929)
There's a big difference between breaking the physical laws of the universe and Big Tech not wanting to spend money on moderators.
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Re:FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video... by brookst on Friday September 20, 2024 @07:38PM (#41606399)
"Big" is pretty vague there.

But my point was that you asserted that regulations can overcome claims of impossibility. I was just illustrating that is not always true, and therefore we can't assume it is true here.

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