Probably better to have your elected representatives involved than just let some shareholders decide how technology should evolve in a fair and beneficial manner.
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Japan Preparing to Regulate Big Tech in Collaboration with U.S. and Europe
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Probably better to have your elected representatives involved than just let some shareholders decide how technology should evolve in a fair and beneficial manner.
Sure, let’s just leave the world to the few big tech companies and call it a day.
But what about the mega church lemmings, the flat earthers , the evolution deniers and the believers of bleach - just to name a few? I agree with you in theory but I’m afraid large parts of the population are not smart enough to apply to this thought process.
Regulation does not necessarily mean split up. It does however mean being held accountable.
Yes, being accountable for the existing laws. Not killing innovation, because these companies have already innovated and have reaped the benefit of their smart work. All these "big tech" companies started out small and worked their way into "big tech" because they done things in a smart and innovative way that has given them traction in their respective marketplaces.
I certainly would not penalise a company for being successful, but there comes a point where being the biggest player also means that you should be held accountable when SHTF within that "empire" you built.
Some of the existing laws do not properly cover some the current abuses by Big tech e.g. Facebook's Policies on Censoring clearly fall in line with them being a Publisher, while not "technically" being a publisher.
Take Google My Business for example - if your business don't exist there, your business does not exist, as GMB is used by Wayz, Google Maps etc, which will be used by the vast majority of potential customers to find you.
At this point in time its their algorithm that "decides" if something is against their T&C and your business can be suspended without ANY notification from Google.
When this happens, there is NO people anymore that you can talk to, there is only an email support system that notifies you after you fill in a form that you will not get any more notifications and basically don't bother them with follow ups or it will slow things down!
This exact situation has happened 3 business I do work for. In one case they were removed from Map's / Search for over 3 months and almost had to shut down completely.
Then there's Amazon, who strong-arm small businesses to wholesale to them for pittance or else...
Whatever about new regulations, how about just proper damn oversight into practices of big tech companies that DO affect millions of others.
App Stores and operating systems are honestly so far down the list of things they NEED to start going after
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I did not say it was. I said that a private/corporate company should be able manage their owned systems as they see fit, if the government is stepping in, then they are over stepping their bounds. Government control is a different thing. That should not be allowed.
Does that go for all corporations or just tech ?
Would you feel comfortable taking a drug released by a corporation without any oversight ?
The current laws that are in place pre-date the majority of the technology that we use on a daily basis now.
Independent oversight would be probably the ideal solution, but its been proven time and again that independent commissions can be just as self serving as the people they are supposed to oversee.
You’re talking about dominating one segment of the computing market; a segment that has become marginalized by the rise of smartphones and tablets. In many countries, smartphones are a person’s main computer. As a result, PC shipments have fallen considerably, from 415MM units in 2012 to 250 or 260MM last year. As for 1 trillion dollars, that’s their market cap which is driven by Azure, not their declining Windows business. Hence, Windows is no longer the feared monopoly it once was... toppled by Apple and Google.
I have no Facebook and no Twitter accounts and I use DuckDuckGo on all my Apple and Android devices. I have an active VPN switched on too.