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by buchanaf
3050 days ago
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Could you elaborate on their aloofness? What exactly do you hope to achieve by regulating them? They seem to take the privacy of their users far more seriously than other competitors as well as the government (US - net neutrality). |
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For Google:
If your site gets incorrectly fucked over by one of Google's ranking algorithm changes, try to find someone to talk to who cares enough to try to fix the issue.
Ditto if your Gmail account gets wrongly flagged and closed for some reason. There's no one for you to call and you're fucked, unless you happen know someone inside Google.
Neither of these have happened to me personally, but I've followed cases of each pretty closely.
For Facebook:
It's recent newsfeed changes have had a huge detrimental impact on legitimate news organizations, even more in some foreign markets than int the US. See how much Facebook cares.
> What exactly do you hope to achieve by regulating them?
The standard stuff, like elimination of unfair competition (e.g. Google using Search to push its other stuff). I'd also like to see some breakups/forced divestitures to increase overall competition.
In Facebook's case, specifically: I'd like to see Instagram and Whatsapp spun off; and the core Facebook social network decentralized into several independent instances, with mandates to conform to open interoperability standards. Those standards should include a mandatory privacy permissioning system, to control how personal data is used across instance boundaries.