Facebook and Google launch lobbying group, The Internet Association
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Re: Facebook and Google launch lobbying group, The Internet Association
#2This is a good thing, right?
Re: Facebook and Google launch lobbying group, The Internet Association
#3It's more of a 'stop our users words making us suable' rather than 'don't curtail our users rights, especially free speech' effort, but I can't think of any serious differences. There will be some.
Re: Facebook and Google launch lobbying group, The Internet Association
#4This is a good thing, right?
Probably for a few decades until these companies lose competitiveness and regain it through legislation.
Re: Facebook and Google launch lobbying group, The Internet Association
#5It's more of a 'stop our users words making us suable' rather than 'don't curtail our users rights, especially free speech' effort, but I can't think of any serious differences. There will be some.
I'm guessing data portability and privacy stuff can be reframed as stealing IP, anti-business, etc.
Re: Facebook and Google launch lobbying group, The Internet Association
#6This website is hard to look at. It feels like someone was just throwing cool features together without any sort of continuity.
Re: Facebook and Google launch lobbying group, The Internet Association
#7This is a good thing, right?
> This is a good thing, right?
Yes. Lobbyist = legitimate bribery, and we need somebody bribing congressmen to start voting our way on patents and copyright (among other things.)
Of course, they'll be bribed to vote against small company startups getting in the face of goog and fb, so it's a double-edged sword.
Re: Facebook and Google launch lobbying group, The Internet Association
#8This website is hard to look at. It feels like someone was just throwing cool features together without any sort of continuity. http://internetassociation.org/
I really do like the double scroll bar and the fact that even with the second scroll bar scrolled all the way up, the top of the blog is still cut off. Chrome, Windows 7. Overlapping elements as well as broken tumblr links. It's really quite embarrassing for such big names behind it.
Re: Facebook and Google launch lobbying group, The Internet Association
#9This is a good thing, right?
Probably for a few decades until these companies lose competitiveness and regain it through legislation.
I hadn't thought about this, but it's a great point. They certainly have the money to influence politics in many ways, not all of which may be good.
While this may be a step forward in the fight against SOPA-style bills, this is a huge step backwards in the fight to take money out of politics.
Re: Facebook and Google launch lobbying group, The Internet Association
#10This website is hard to look at. It feels like someone was just throwing cool features together without any sort of continuity. http://internetassociation.org/
Those random little dots floating around make it difficult to read the text.