Regulate the Internet like the real world or the real world like the Internet?
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No, but I am in incognito mode so noscript is off.
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Black on white for me... ...and I often run into problems by my not accepting cookies and use of AdBlock - but this site displays just fine.
Re: Regulate the Internet like the real world or the real world like the Internet?
#5In every discussion like this I've ever read on HN, the implicit assumption is: all the companies who take advantage of the new regulatory system will be like Uber.
Why is that a valid assumption? The Internet is full of sleazy companies utterly undeserving of anyone's trust.
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#6In every discussion like this I've ever read on HN, the implicit assumption is: all the companies who take advantage of the new regulatory system will be like Uber. Why is that a valid assumption? The Internet is full of sleazy companies utterly undeserving of anyone's trust.
Perhaps it's not a valid assumption - but does it matter? A large chunk of the point of the 2.0 regulation model (the graphic in the OP) is that over time reputation is crowd-sourced. Can we not just live with the existence of sleazy companies in the knowledge that over time they'll be weaned out?
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#7In every discussion like this I've ever read on HN, the implicit assumption is: all the companies who take advantage of the new regulatory system will be like Uber. Why is that a valid assumption? The Internet is full of sleazy companies utterly undeserving of anyone's trust.
And in the world of real interactions (like the Uber and AirBnb domains), it quickly becomes obvious that they are sleazy unaccountable companies, and they die, faster than regulators could even send cease & desist faxes.
Where the stakes matter, community self-protection can now ramp up faster, make fairer distinctions, and preserve flexibility better than (often-incumbent-captured) regulatory agencies.
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#8"Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others, shall be the whole of the law."
Re: Regulate the Internet like the real world or the real world like the Internet?
#9In every discussion like this I've ever read on HN, the implicit assumption is: all the companies who take advantage of the new regulatory system will be like Uber. Why is that a valid assumption? The Internet is full of sleazy companies utterly undeserving of anyone's trust.
How does that differ from the norms of non-internet companies?
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#10In every discussion like this I've ever read on HN, the implicit assumption is: all the companies who take advantage of the new regulatory system will be like Uber. Why is that a valid assumption? The Internet is full of sleazy companies utterly undeserving of anyone's trust.
No, that's not the assumption at all.
The assumption is that any business that's not deserving of trust is very easy to detect and kill in the internet era, solely through the distributed actions of consumers with good access to information.
And this distributed form of regulation is significantly less corruptible than centralized, political regulation.