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b_b  ·  643 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: From Bing to Sydney

    ...social media companies could never afford to meet the standard and still turn a profit.

But isn't that their problem, not ours? Chemical and other industrial companies made the same basic argument about the Clean Water and Clean Air acts. If your business model is predicated on polluting, then you have a bad business model and it's you, not the public, who need to adapt.





am_Unition  ·  643 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Whether or not we might be living through the latter part of a finite age of online social media is an interesting question. Surely not, is my guess, but if we knew for sure the next form it'd assume, we'd probably be busy working on it already, right? (not you and I, necessarily, the proverbial "we")