> I’m not sure about this.
Which is why it's a policy disagreement. A lot of the people who want Facebook dead and gone still think it should be done via competition and technology rather than government regulation. Others may disagree. But neither position is any proof of being a shill for Facebook.
> Surveillance capitalism is the business model that Facebook and Google have chosen, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t have a social network or a search engine sustained though a different one.
Right, that's kind of the point. If we can build one on a different model and get people to use it then Facebook will wane without any requirement for government intervention, and a lot of people are actively working on that right now.
But if you pass new laws, they typically have unintended consequences. Normal non-surveillance businesses will still have their customers' IP addresses, names, email addresses, etc. for normal business reasons having nothing to do with data mining. If regulations require anyone with that kind of information to be a large established company in order to afford the compliance costs, you won't get new competitors anymore.
Which is why it's a policy disagreement. A lot of the people who want Facebook dead and gone still think it should be done via competition and technology rather than government regulation. Others may disagree. But neither position is any proof of being a shill for Facebook.
> Surveillance capitalism is the business model that Facebook and Google have chosen, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t have a social network or a search engine sustained though a different one.
Right, that's kind of the point. If we can build one on a different model and get people to use it then Facebook will wane without any requirement for government intervention, and a lot of people are actively working on that right now.
But if you pass new laws, they typically have unintended consequences. Normal non-surveillance businesses will still have their customers' IP addresses, names, email addresses, etc. for normal business reasons having nothing to do with data mining. If regulations require anyone with that kind of information to be a large established company in order to afford the compliance costs, you won't get new competitors anymore.