Cory DoctorowOh shit, Christmas came early this year!
#Interoperability, #Privacy, & #Security https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2023/12/interoperability-privacy-security
Bernie The Wordsmith@pluralistic I think somewhere in the FTC there is an Internet Con book of yours with a lot of markers on it. The examples about the mouse and browsers are very telling.
Linux Walt Alt (@lnxw37a2) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}@pluralistic Until some anti-competitive corporation screams to their paid-off congressionals and Congress forces the FTC to back off.
In all honesty, if we want corporations kept in check, we have to depend on the New York State Attorney General's office. They do more than all the federal agencies and 48 of the 50 states combined.
In all honesty, if we want corporations kept in check, we have to depend on the New York State Attorney General's office. They do more than all the federal agencies and 48 of the 50 states combined.
davel 🚫@pluralistic Please don’t be blowing smoke up our asses #FTC, and please survive the next election cycle so as to continue acting on your newly-developed spine. #IWantToBelieve
(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️🌈@pluralistic Assuming this is aimed at Apple (cos of Beeper).
It sucks.
nicce@jann @pluralistic Apple and Beeper have been in spotlight recently but there are many more things.
Google’s Message app is also closed and not interoperable.
EU law is coming to force in next year which forces Whatsapp, Meta Messenger et al. to be interoperable.
Google’s Message app is also closed and not interoperable.
EU law is coming to force in next year which forces Whatsapp, Meta Messenger et al. to be interoperable.
Skylar Caulfield 
@nicce @jann @pluralistic my issue with forcing interoperability is if you mandate anyone who writes a messaging app to be interoptable your gonna end up with everyone using RCS for 50 years. I'm not trying to say we don't need interoptability but when you consider that activitypub hasn't even been around that long, like I think it's okay to have different interoptable standards
@nicce @jann @pluralistic it's also like NO YOU CANT MAKE YOUR OWN APP TBAGS ILLEGAL, HOW DARE YOU NLT USE THE ENCRYPTION WE SECRETLY FIGURED OUT HOW TO CRACK 😠😠😠
@nicce @jann @pluralistic I think instead we should be required to open source new protocols and document then we'll if they gain any bit of popularity. Like bridges can be made
@skymtf @pluralistic @jann Only gatekeepers are ”forced”; https://digital-markets-act-cases.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers
Currently it means total of 22 core platform services provided by these.
Max Lee 
@pluralistic
"Web pages can display regardless of web browser." [Citation needed]
Since everything is Chrome now and the important sites do not allow you to view them without the privacy-invading captchas of Cloudflare and Google this couldn't be further from the truth. It's sad that the FTC seems to still be so behind the times that they don't see that. (or lobbied to turn a blind eye)
@pluralistic This has become even cleared to me since I've installed the amazing JShelter extension which tries to circumvent fingerprinting... something that Cloudflare heavily relies on to accept you as a human. (CF is telling us that people who care about privacy matter less than an automated Chrome captcha bypasser)