PerugoonNov 20, 2022
Jeff Jarvis

Entire regulatory and legislative regimes and bureaucracies are being built up around controlling big social media. Now look at the burden that will fall on the new competitors trying to rise to the challenge of providing alternatives to big, corporate social media. Frightening. File under somewhat unintended consequences.
This from @[email protected]

https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/11/your-compliance-obligations-under-the-uks-online-safety-bill/

Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety Bill; or, welcome to hell – Hi, I'm Heather Burns

Nov 20, 2022 at 1:33pmWeb
Show threadmosttoastNov 20, 2022
@jeffjarvis @heatherburns @pluralistic Cory Doctorow writes about this frequently- that larger companies operating as gatekeepers will eventually becme targets precisely because they are large gatekeepers. His example is often Apple's app store vs. chinese banning of vpn's, but it applies here too i think. highly recommend 'Chokepoint Capitalism' if you haven't read it already.
Show threadJennifer Stisa GranickNov 20, 2022
@jeffjarvis @heatherburns I agree, but it *feels intentional. My perception has been that govts, especially in the EU, vastly prefer large, heavily state-regulated companies over the chaos of a ecosystem with lots of smaller, diverse innovators. In the US, every proposed bill seems to be in reaction to something people think they don't like about Facebook. I think regulators believe that the Internet is "mature" and there won't be much evolution or change.
Show threadJeff JarvisNov 20, 2022
@jennifer @[email protected] I couldn't agree more. As regulators realize the implications of federation -- catching Jell-O -- they will freak and write more regulation.
Show threadDenise Howell Nov 20, 2022
@jeffjarvis @heatherburns Amen.
Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPENov 21, 2022
@jeffjarvis @heatherburns If that, in theory, applies to everybody who runs their own family-and-friends email server ... then ... compliance simply ain't gonna happen.