[shilgapira]

I find it utterly perplexing how we as a society agree with a situation wherein critical communication infrastructure is allowed to be controlled by private corporations with no regulatory guidance or oversight.

It should be possible to come up with a framework based on open standards where interoperability and migration between providers is possible, while leaving some space for innovations and extensions.

[altairprime]

So long as all traffic on the interoperable network can be caller-ID’d to the sender, that’s likely to be what we’ll get: anyone can talk on the network, and – just like iMessage today – authorities can trace, identify, and shutdown abusive senders.

[bdhess]

Have you heard of email?

[bmitc]

Email is terrible. With the amount of spam that flows through it, I have low expectations that my emails make it through spam filters, especially corporate and university ones.

[nucleardog]

So the solution is to make the other platforms open like email?

I think I can guess where this is going.

[graftak]

Nobody is stopping you.

[kajecounterhack]

The comment you replied to is saying that industry + regulators together should be able to accomplish that, rather than the current state where private companies monopolize (it's a weird version of embrace, extend, extinguish) entire critical communication channels and prevent them from being more widely used.