Lauren WeinsteinJul 7, 2023
Now comes the interesting part. In the face of Meta's Threads, does Musk change his behavior with #Twitter -- pricing, verifications, moderation, etc. in any ways?
Show threadNour Agha Jul 7, 2023
@lauren Only thing that will revive his platform and put it on the competitive stage is ActivityPub or AT protocol. Otherwise it's dead in the water, especially once Threads launches AP.
Show threadLauren Weinstein
@Nour Or governments cracking down on Meta for privacy issues. And that could easily happen.
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Show threadNour Agha Jul 7, 2023
@lauren I'd hope so, but they're going to dodge a lot of scrutiny once they federate, pointing to the ability and freedom of users to migrate elsewhere while benefiting from a firehose of content from federated servers without having to deal with the legal responsibilities of hosting all of that data.
Show threadMirishuliJul 7, 2023
@Nour @lauren No one is going to crack down on Meta. Not in the US anyway. Notice he’s not launching in Europe because they already have laws in place. But our lawmakers do not understand enough about the technology to regulate it at all.
Show threadLauren WeinsteinJul 7, 2023
@MiriShuli @Nour Regulation *is* coming. There are already a variety of fully bipartisan "Big Tech Hate" bills. The only question is how SCOTUS will deal with various of them, which is hard to predict.
Show threadMirishuliJul 7, 2023
@Nour @lauren This court has already proven it’s bought and paid for by the likes of Harlan Crow and the racists. Feinstein and Grassley haven’t a clue what kind of legislation needs to be written and whatever is written will be rendered useless. So the fact that it *is* coming is a ruse. Sorry, the last 7 yrs has left me without any hope.