Treat Facebook like something between a telco and a newspaper, says Zuckerberg
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Re: Treat Facebook like something between a telco and a newspaper, says Zuckerberg
#2A brilliant suggestion by Mark Zuckerberg. Rules, regulations and compliance are a burden and a barrier to entry for startups and competition. In most countries there are only a couple of regulated telcos.
Imagine with the tech landscape and how many fewer companies there will be if it is regulated like telcos.
Governments and regulators will have a bigger say in picking winners and losers.
Re: Treat Facebook like something between a telco and a newspaper, says Zuckerberg
#3Of course Zuck wants you to think he's a utility, essential and ubiquitous like electricity and running water. Absolutely not a predatory and amoral monopolist, no sir.
Re: Treat Facebook like something between a telco and a newspaper, says Zuckerberg
#4Of course Zuck wants you to think he's a utility, essential and ubiquitous like electricity and running water. Absolutely not a predatory and amoral monopolist, no sir.
Those aren't actually contradictory. But anyway, the point of this article is that he's distancing Facebook from the "utility" category, not trying to join it.
Re: Treat Facebook like something between a telco and a newspaper, says Zuckerberg
#5A brilliant suggestion by Mark Zuckerberg. Rules, regulations and compliance are a burden and a barrier to entry for startups and competition. In most countries there are only a couple of regulated telcos. Imagine with the tech landscape and how many fewer companies there will be if it is regulated like telcos. Governments and regulators will have a bigger say in picking winners and losers.
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Re: Treat Facebook like something between a telco and a newspaper, says Zuckerberg
#6So long as certain content (that is not restricted by external forces, i.e. the law) is prohibited from the platform, I fail to see why they should be considered anything other than a publisher. If the platform can only be used for content they approve of, they can't be defined as anything else.
Re: Treat Facebook like something between a telco and a newspaper, says Zuckerberg
#7Just think of how many lawyer and PR dollars came up with this PR / regulatory relations strategy.
Re: Treat Facebook like something between a telco and a newspaper, says Zuckerberg
#8We might disagree with Zuckerberg about the specific consequences, but as far as the headline goes he's mostly right. Social media is a new thing, and trying to use existing regulatory frameworks for it, like those for telcos and newspapers, will lead to us all having a bad time.
Where I disagree, or at least am uncertain, is that the right regulatory framework for social media lies on some kind of straight line between the two others mentioned. In particular, those are both pretty heavyweight, and I don't want any real obstacles for new competitors or people just running a phpBB.
Re: Treat Facebook like something between a telco and a newspaper, says Zuckerberg
#9So, treat them as a mash-up between one of the best known monopolies in US history and an industry known for equal parts educating and confusing people? That's both very forthcoming of him and completely terrifying.
The National Enquirer is a newspaper too, and probably the closer analogy to Facebook in reality than more reputable news organizations.
Re: Treat Facebook like something between a telco and a newspaper, says Zuckerberg
#10Let me guess, he should have the discretion of a newspaper and the freedom from liability of a telco?