U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take their data with them
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#2After watching Mark Zuckerberg testifying on Capitol hill I think it's obvious Facebook and Alphabet are leading the show... A very interesting case is Alexander Nix speech against UK comittee, recommend.
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#3Who asked for this, exactly? I know plenty of users who would like to delete their data--I can't think of too many that want to port it over somewhere else.
Is the idea that this would fuel competition by allowing people to migrate their history over to decentralized/federated alternatives?
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#4Being able to take your data with you is good but most of the value in social media is due to the network effect. If you can't seamlessly being your connections with you, the incumbents will continue to have a huge advantage over newcomers to the market. In the context of social media, how could someone bring their connections with them to a new platform without compromising the rights of those connected to?
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#5Who asked for this, exactly? I know plenty of users who would like to delete their data--I can't think of too many that want to port it over somewhere else. Is the idea that this would fuel competition by allowing people to migrate their history over to decentralized/federated alternatives?
I would love to do that. Move all my Instagram pics to Pixelfed and all my tweets to Mastodon. Not sure I could do that with the way things are now.
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#6Being able to take your data with you is good but most of the value in social media is due to the network effect. If you can't seamlessly being your connections with you, the incumbents will continue to have a huge advantage over newcomers to the market. In the context of social media, how could someone bring their connections with them to a new platform without compromising the rights of those connected to?
Yes, it's not clear what bringing your data out of social media even really means. Saving your posts/photos is one thing. But it's not clear that exporting your social graph and all their posts/photos/comments/etc. is even a good thing--yet that's what exporting their social media would mean to a lot of people.
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#7Who asked for this, exactly? I know plenty of users who would like to delete their data--I can't think of too many that want to port it over somewhere else. Is the idea that this would fuel competition by allowing people to migrate their history over to decentralized/federated alternatives?
I have to be on mainstream social networks to interact with people I know who are. That's the fundamental problem with these networks.
"Under the bill the companies would be required to maintain an interface to facilitate interoperability. Or users would be allowed to choose another company to manage a user’s account settings, content, and online interactions, the statement said."
Think of this requirement less like a "Facebook export" and more like what AOL Instant Messenger was once forced to do: They were legally required to allow other messengers to communicate with AIM users.
Imagine me being able to be on Mastodon, but follow my Facebook friends and tag them and be tagged by them.
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#8Who asked for this, exactly? I know plenty of users who would like to delete their data--I can't think of too many that want to port it over somewhere else. Is the idea that this would fuel competition by allowing people to migrate their history over to decentralized/federated alternatives?
Yeah I would like to have a tool to purge a lot of messages from history. I don't want people in the future to sift thru my messages and wonder why I and my friends were so weird in Facebook chats.
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#9Being able to take your data with you is good but most of the value in social media is due to the network effect. If you can't seamlessly being your connections with you, the incumbents will continue to have a huge advantage over newcomers to the market. In the context of social media, how could someone bring their connections with them to a new platform without compromising the rights of those connected to?
interoperability and distributed federation would be much more powerful than export. Maybe they dont know facebook already has an export button? And if that export is in a non-standard-structured format, its not even useful to import into another network.
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#10The EU has also a similar right [1].
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...