Tech giants are bracing for tougher regulation under Biden's administration, as Democrats' calls for regulation have become more urgent after Capitol attacks
Geroman / @geromanat : Translation: We will censor what ever you order https://twitter.com/... Abe el Honesto / @nekoplanetd : @MitchWagner @doctorow So a bit like what happened in europe. With the current regulations there's not much incentive to develop alternatives to the existing -american- solutions: too expensive to develop the algorithms when you can be liable for infringement when they fail. Dave Keating / @davekeating : It will be interesting to see how Brussels interacts with this new attitude in Washington. For years the US resisted EU efforts to crack down on tech giants (efforts that weren't very successful). Could they now join forces in taking on Silicon Valley? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@MitchWagner @doctorow I think we're looking at social-media-as-it-exists (huge scale, huge connectedness, panopticon, etc.) as a sort of inevitability, and that may be wrong. Our problems (Trumpism, fake news, etc.) can be seen as relating directly to scale, not ‘freedom.’
Amid the calls from all corners for Facebook and other social media giants to do more moderation, let's take a moment to review these companies' manifest unfitness to moderate at all. 1/ https://twitter.com/...
Another worry is - as Cory @doctorow has noted - regulations get put in place that are so expensive to comply with that only billion-dollar companies can afford it, creating permanent monopolies that kill competition forever.
@MitchWagner @doctorow So a bit like what happened in europe. With the current regulations there's not much incentive to develop alternatives to the existing -american- solutions: too expensive to develop the algorithms when you can be liable for infringement when they fail.
It will be interesting to see how Brussels interacts with this new attitude in Washington. For years the US resisted EU efforts to crack down on tech giants (efforts that weren't very successful). Could they now join forces in taking on Silicon Valley? https://www.washingtonpost.…