Comment by SoftTalker
9 months ago
The masses will always stay in the walled garden. It's where they want to be and they don't even realize there are walls. It is just what is for them.
9 months ago
The masses will always stay in the walled garden. It's where they want to be and they don't even realize there are walls. It is just what is for them.
> The masses will always stay in the walled garden. It's where they want to be and they don't even realize there are walls. It is just what is for them.
The walls should have open doors, though, versus prison bars. Physical switches on devices (much like older Chromebook devices had) used to opt out of the walled garden should be mandated by consumer protection regulations.
It's not entirely unlike the qualified/accredited investor rules which won't let you invest in unregulated securities without income/net worth/certification requirements. No form exists which would allow someone to say "hey, I get why these wall are here, but I understand and am opting out of your protection".
I personally think there should be (I value individual rights/freedom over preventing someone from harming themselves), but I also see why we ended up here. When bad things happen, people demand action and government wants to be seen as doing something.
Really, we're talking Singapore, which is one of the most restrictive places in the world.
Have the EU counterbalance this closing with extra fines for anticompetitive behavior.
> Physical switches on devices (much like older Chromebook devices had) used to opt out of the walled garden should be mandated by consumer protection regulations.
I don’t want to live in the same society as the person that wrote this asinine comment with this much confidence. We are just ideologically incompatible
How so? I understand the tension between freedom to tinker and consumer protection. It's OK to assign different values to either of them. And there are definitely ways to reconcile the two positions. Some of that will have to come through nuanced regulations.
For example, it could be regulated that if the flip is switched (or a fuse is blown irreversibly) on a device, responsibility for the device and its software fall entirely onto the owner. So if they get phished on an unprotected device and lose their life savings, it's entirely on them. Manufacturers and service providers have no obligation to support them.
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Normal users complain about not being able to change things on their devices all the time. My whole family was pissed about the latest android update because Gemini was foisted on them and they didn't know how to turn it off.
It's a misconception that the masses want it
I don't think they cheeref at the arrival of the Microsoft Store on Windows, for example.
That's what's pushed for on the current smartphones, and they accept it; they easily don't see the problems, and it can seem complex for them to avoid it.
Other than when talking with other techies and on forums like this one I've never heard anyone complain about ads in Windows or the Microsoft Store. Again, for most people, computers and web sites and apps just are what they are. They don't even realize there's any other way.
Yeah, it's like saying the masses wanted high-fructose corn syrup, or lead, or asbestos, or BPA, or CFCs, or whatever other cost-saving or profit-increasing but classist and consumer-hostile product or practice was foisted upon us and sweetened with deep propaganda and gaslighting, bankrolled by global corporate interests.