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    1. BrendanEich‏Verified account @BrendanEich 4 Sep 2019
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      Whistleblowers need protection, for sure (including government whistleblowers, per Quis custodiet ipsos custodes). Are they protected rn? Not well IMHO, and again it is up to vigilant citizens to insist on this among other goods. I know of no machine that ensures it.

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    2. Bill Grosso‏ @wgrosso 4 Sep 2019
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      " Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" qua " Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" ? Really?

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    3. BrendanEich‏Verified account @BrendanEich 4 Sep 2019
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      Really. You ask for "structure", I keep saying humans, tricksy and false, are in the loop. Now what?

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    4. Bill Grosso‏ @wgrosso 4 Sep 2019
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      Don't know. I'm trying to educate myself.

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    5. BrendanEich‏Verified account @BrendanEich 4 Sep 2019
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      Ok, but reasoning together, I think we should agree that no known machine can enforce a better outcome. Humans still in loop. But we need to "price in" externalities (tracking costs and threats) and enforce basic user rights a la GDPR's "consent to give personal data to a party".

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    6. Bill Grosso‏ @wgrosso 4 Sep 2019
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      Well, you could say that antitrust is a mechanism for creating competition and that competition is good, not only because lower prices and better products, but also because the participant companies have a financial incentive to monitor each other and whistleblow.

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    7. Bill Grosso‏ @wgrosso 4 Sep 2019
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      But to really make that work, the whistleblowing probably has to have legal teeth, not just potential-loss-of-marketshare-in-an-abstract-sense.

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    8. Bill Grosso‏ @wgrosso 4 Sep 2019
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      And there has to be some clear and unequivocal set of rules that give guidance in new situations. If there's no legal teeth, or the guidance is unclear, we're back to "move fast and break things"

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    9. Bill Grosso‏ @wgrosso 4 Sep 2019
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      That's the part that feels difficult to me. If government and legal structure are inherently reactive and behind the times, how do we make this work?

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    10. BrendanEich‏Verified account @BrendanEich 4 Sep 2019
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      Again, no one knows. Competition is not enough, because first and second place winners carve up a valuable market, take over adjacent markets, and bribe/overpower regulators every time. There is a distinct diff between Google 2004 and Google 2019. Could it be codified in Law? IDK

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      Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic 4 Sep 2019
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      There’s a stabilizing factor here, in that Google, Facebook and others implemented their business models before the pitfalls of supporting them became known to publishers and brands. Now everybody knows not to let any ecosystem company intermediate their customer relationships.

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        2. Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic 4 Sep 2019
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          New entrants won’t be able to use that same playbook, so the regulatory problem is limited to incumbents and won’t likely spread to new entrants within current tech industry domains.

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        3. BrendanEich‏Verified account @BrendanEich 4 Sep 2019
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          True, but we have to cover costs. If you can do it with your scale at 12%, great. Not sure here :-P.

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        2. BrendanEich‏Verified account @BrendanEich 8 Sep 2019
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          Not sure everyone knows, but even if most do know, many have a hard time doing much about it other than try to train users via direct channels, and even (lol, not really) Google search ads, to cut out the middlemen. See https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1168986962704982016?s=12 … and h/t @wycats on these two images.pic.twitter.com/hmKcdHaO3T

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        3. Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic 8 Sep 2019
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          Yeah, Google wants us to pay to run legitimate search ads against our Fortnite trademark as a way to crowd out the ads from scam sites they run against our Fortnite trademark. Brands signed up for one thing, but this is something else entirely.

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        1. Larry Rosenthal‏ @LarryRosenthal 4 Sep 2019
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          If only they studied the Relationships between manufactures and distributors by the late 90s;). Walmart v every American manufacturing brand ;).

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