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Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS, and that's a problem
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Yes, that’s the solution.
There’s a reason why every rich piece of shit is 100% against government regulation. They want absolute power to exploit, pollute, abuse, bribe and every other anti-social activity we can imagine.
Okay, then. Describe the law that would fix this. This is your chance to write the bulletproof legislation.
Well, now you can show them! Just describe your perfect regulation right here and tell us how it will be implemented worldwide.
Are you some kind of lawyer? You seem to think that I can write a law on an online forum. Things like that usually take a lot of work to figure out the details.
The FCC has had media market size laws on the books for decades. I can imagine something similar to that but for the digital world since it is so important to the modern economy.
The idea should be that if a business is too big to fail then it is too big to exist and should be broken up.
I'm not, but I've got a brain and like to use it. I saw your post suggesting regulation (which I normally agree with) and then started thinking about how regulation would have to be written. I then came up with the questions I put in my post. I figured if you were suggesting a regulatory fix, you'd thought of these questions too and had some answers.
Imagine my disappointment when you just replied [paraphrased] "People against regulation suck".
See? Thats more what I'm looking for! The FCC model has some possibilities, but shortcomings. While FCC does have global reach, as it is the body that regulates any communications satellite in space, the FCC angle still depends on the USA being the arbitrator of global law. With the current government in Washington, we can see why that may not be a good idea.