Also, "the web" en toto is actually not popular. What is "popular" are actually obsessive behavioral exploits like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. They are new vices. So saying the web is "doing something right" is like saying casinos and meth are "doing something right".
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Replying to @cmuratori @Jonathan_Blow and
There _are_ people who may be doing actual technology or things on the web, but they are not the people who are making the money. The money, as usual, is going to the people exploiting behavioral problems, since the government hasn't yet stepped in.
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Replying to @cmuratori @Jonathan_Blow and
Now we are seeing the government start to step in, and this is unsurprising. Just like they ban drugs, tax alcohol, and restrict gambling/prostitution/pornography to certain zones, the same thing will happen to Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/etc.
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Replying to @cmuratori @Jonathan_Blow and
Well the government also banned alcohol in your country, causing a massive increase in criminal activity. This goes for a lot of the so called drugs as well. Of course they will want to restrict this industry, they always do.
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Replying to @mrlundmark @cmuratori and
This doesn't mean that it will be an improvement for anyone.
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Replying to @mrlundmark @Jonathan_Blow and
Of course - it is not about improvement. But it _is_ about why some industries can make massive amounts of money before the government gets around to restricting them. That part is pretty clear cut.
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Replying to @cmuratori @Jonathan_Blow and
Aren't industries allowed to make money? I'm not sure I get the point
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Replying to @syranide @mrlundmark and
And it's not about ideology either. If you want maximum libertarianism, great, but then you need to get rid of the clean air act, allow gambling everywhere, no more medical malpractice, etc. The government shouldn't heavily regulate everyone else but _not_ tech companies.
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When the government puts lots of restrictions on everyone, but lets tech companies basically do whatever they want (no liability for bugs, no need to follow copyright law, no limits on eavesdropping and information collection) it creates a cross-industry competition disparity.
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Replying to @cmuratori @syranide and
And as far as I know, a lot of large companies have a lot of lawyers just to cope with copyright and patent issues.
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Replying to @mrlundmark @cmuratori and
Plus Google as an example have paid quite some fines in France etc. It's not as simple as you present it.
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