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The government is supposed to regulate to level the playing field between consumers and big business.

Too bad our regulation framework is captured by the same people who own those companies and their friends.

DuckduckGo is basically a frontend for bing with some privacy marketing added to it. It still sends microsoft trackers. They are all so bad because of enshittification.

Google and bing are here.

Abuse users to benefit business customers

Reposting from PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com in Technology@beehaw.org

Here’s an AI outline because this was actually a good talk:

        How Platforms Die
        The speaker introduces the concept of platform decay or “enshittification” and how it leads to the death of internet platforms.
            He defines platforms as firms like Uber, Amazon, and Facebook that connect users and business customers.
        He outlines a 3-stage process called enshittification where platforms:
            Are initially good to users
            Abuse users to benefit business customers
            Eventually abuse business customers to only benefit shareholders
        This results in the platform becoming a “pile of shit” that dies.

    Facebook Case Study
        He uses Facebook as a case study of enshittification’s 3 stages:
            Initially attracted users by promising privacy protections and custom feeds
            Then broke promises and sold user data to advertisers and flooded feeds with publisher content
            Finally, reduced value to users and fees for publishers to extract all value for shareholders
                This led to an angry user base and brittle equilibrium

    Causes of Enshittification
        Lack of Competition
            Weak antitrust enforcement has allowed consolidation across industries
            Companies can use predatory pricing to undercut competitors
            Mergers eliminate competition
                Example: Google relying on acquisitions rather than in-house innovation
        Unrestricted “Backend Tweaking”
            Tech platforms control the algorithms and systems behind their products
            They can arbitrarily change these to alter user experiences
                e.g. Facebook reducing visibility of publisher content in feeds
            Done without transparency, oversight or accountability
        Bans on Reverse Engineering
            Laws like DMCA 1201 and CFAA criminalize circumventing DRM and terms of service
            Makes it illegal to reverse engineer platforms to enable interoperability
            Tech companies use IP laws to prevent modding and adversarial interoperability
                e.g. Apple using IP laws to prevent iOS modding

    Solutions
        Strengthen Antitrust Enforcement
            Block anti-competitive mergers
            Break up existing tech giants
        Pass Privacy, Labor and Consumer Protection Laws
            Comprehensive federal privacy laws with private right of action
            End worker misclassification through gig economy
            Apply consumer protection standards to platforms
        Allow Adversarial Interoperability
            Roll back laws criminalizing modding, reverse engineering
            Use government procurement to incentivize open ecosystems
            Appoint special masters to oversee platform legal threats
        Keep Interoperators in Check
            Bind interoperators to the same privacy, fair trading and labor laws
            Determined through democratic process vs corporate policy

    Conclusion
        We need to prepare and spread these policy ideas to capitalize on the next crisis
        Efforts are underway to enable a better internet through this approach


  

Anybody got a TLDW;? Or did all of you just comment on the title and the snippet?

Your mistake comes in assuming christians have coherent beliefs. They largely believe what everyone else around them believes. In the US this means they are mostly captured by the grifters of society which are coincidentally the capitalists. Funny how that works.

For the rare exceptions you can point look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_socialism.

I agree with the sentiment, but if no one ever complains things are guaranteed to not change. At least this is, at the very least, an exercise in explaining your own viewpoints and understanding the workings of an institution. That is a skill and lesson that is valuable in the professional world.

Have you ever considered that that is just an improper and wrong world view.

I agree that it is theoretically the wrong way to view the world. However it is how the world works, if you treat a cop like some people treat a service worker like a waiter you could easily be shot.

Are you actually out here judging people based on their jobs and or economic backgrounds and using that to decide how you interact with them

Personally, I do try avoid ranking others via social status but it is pervasive in society. If you don't understand that people unfairly judge you based on your income, class, gender, role, or any other factor, it makes dealing with issues like sexism and racism a lot harder.

One way is to just lie and say you only have a flip phone. There are probably millions of old people that refuse to use smartphones because they don't understand them and there no reason you can't pretend to also have a dumb phone.

Do you really need to explain this to a child?

I never said that you do. I asked how you could explain it.

I think it would be very helpful to help a kid understand why some behaviors are only okay in certain contexts. IE It's okay for a parent to yell at a kid but if a kid yells back they get in trouble. If a kid can understand that authority is not always justified, then it can help them by ensuring they don't blindly follow authority figures when they are wrong or acting maliciously.

I realize you may just be venting but consider complaining to your college administration either via your student council or by yourself.

It should not be the norm to have to tell a stranger where you are to eat food.

You are paying for your education even if you are doing so via a loan and that gives you the right to tell them how you feel about them invading your privacy. In college and in jobs authority figures routinely try to control you and it is worth learning to take a stand against such abuses.

That is part of why I asked it. I want to be able to understand it and hopefully teach it to my nieces and nephews better.

That is much simpler and kid friendlier way than I could come up with. Kudos! A minor nitpick is that use the word friend implies that they are a peer, which in the case of role based status like a teacher doesn't really fit.

I guess what I am looking for is a way to explain the double standard where its thought of as okay teacher or parent to yell but it is frowned upon if a kid does it.

People are conditioned to pretend to agree and to pretend to care. Much of school is about teaching students to pretend to listen or pretend to agree. When someone asks "How are you?" usually they are pretending to care.

It can be annoying when someone pretends to want do something to instead of being honest, but it can also be annoying for to the event planner to plan an event only for no one to want to participate.

When the people around you are routinely dishonest(in subtle ways), as is common in school, work or society, it feels necessary to adapt the same behavior to conform to the norm.

Yes, it shows the same posts, but if I am interacting via a phone without a physical keyboard it is harder to make in depth posts and include things like links to external websites than it is with a phone. Basically a phone user is in general more likely to make shorter replies and interact with memes and short form content more. I guess I am assuming that phone users have a shorter attention spans since it often seems to be the case.

That’s because Democrats are awful st reminding people what they’ve accomplished.

While I disagree with your post on the whole, I agree with the above statement. However, I think it is worth considering that the corporate media does not cover what they accomplish because it does not sell. Instead they focus on what does sell which is fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Coincidentally republicans message often largely focuses on that.

I am ignoring the rest of your rant including the cursing and belittling of others. That is not conducive to convincing someone.

There are a whole lot of people who don’t see economic policies from the Dems and are sick and tired of seeing elected officials endlessly waste all their time and political capital on non-issues.

Also relates to the above point. The corporate media (especially Fox) likes to paint democrats as only focusing on social issues and minimizes any focus on economic policies they do have. Democratic policies are widely known to be good for the economy but you would not get that impression from corporate media.

Democrats are awful at reminding people what they’ve accomplished.

Even if I disagree with your point of view on the whole, I can agree with this statement. However, I do think it is worth bearing in mind that corporate owned media does not cover what democrats do because it does not sell. What does sell to the public is fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Which coincidentally is the republican message.

I am ignoring your the rest of your rant including your cursing and belittling of others.

There are a whole lot of people who don’t see economic policies from the Dems and are sick and tired of seeing elected officials endlessly waste all their time and political capital on non-issues.

Also related to the above point, Media (especially Fox) loves to paint democrats as only focusing on social issues and either ignore any focus on economic issues they have or constantly accusing them of taking your money even when they are not.

It kinda makes sense that mastodon (open source twitter) would have less of a drop than lemmy if you factor in Musk's recent twitter changes.

I can't help but wonder if this is partly driven by the increase in using lemmy from a mobile app, which imo can tend to dumb down the content on lemmy.