> There really needs to be some kind of global Digital Bill of Rights which provides legal recourse from these giant sclerotic algo-run oligopolies
Agreed. I think the problem is mainly that communicating what is wrong in a way that politicians can understand is difficult, and the people who governments hire to make them understand, are not incentivised to do so here (they're typically corporate types, good at ticking boxes, not so good at technology).
Making the EU understand issues such as why Apple's monopoly is a bad thing is easy in comparison, because everybody has a phone and everybody understands "shops". Even so, I'm impressed that went the way it did. I don't have much hope for politicians understanding what MS et al. are doing to mail though.
Agreed. I think the problem is mainly that communicating what is wrong in a way that politicians can understand is difficult, and the people who governments hire to make them understand, are not incentivised to do so here (they're typically corporate types, good at ticking boxes, not so good at technology).
Making the EU understand issues such as why Apple's monopoly is a bad thing is easy in comparison, because everybody has a phone and everybody understands "shops". Even so, I'm impressed that went the way it did. I don't have much hope for politicians understanding what MS et al. are doing to mail though.