REGULATE THE PLATFORMS
https://twitter.com/NicholasVinocur/status/1381488706268332035
When a platform makes its users sign massive legal agreements, yet they don’t meet the extremely low bar of, you know, NOT EXPOSING ALL OF THEM TO FRAUD AND INVASION OF PRIVACY, there needs to be some recourse.
Imagine if a bank just *lost* money from 500 million customers. It would be in the news for the next 5 years, there would be massive investigations and they’d be sued into the ground.
Yet, @facebook loses the personal information of half a BILLION users and no one cares.
Yet, @facebook loses the personal information of half a BILLION users and no one cares.
Here’s the deal: These platforms make BILLIONS off of OUR data. It is extremely valuable.
They’ve successfully convinced us, though, that it’s not really worth anything.
This is what needs to change. We need to hold them to account.
But first, we need to actually care.
They’ve successfully convinced us, though, that it’s not really worth anything.
This is what needs to change. We need to hold them to account.
But first, we need to actually care.
Then we need consumer protection-style guidelines and laws, as there are with the vast, vast majority of industries to ensure that we have at least a modicum of protection against the many abuses of these platforms.
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