Posts by sentientplaice 4 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jul 2020
Whining by Google (or Facebook, were it they) about government regulation is nominally a good sign - unfettered US-style capitalism is rarely good for the common man, as so many in the USA are now finding out. It's not always good to see government intervention, however, especially when one sees the same Murdoch-flavoured beneficiaries as is so boringly usual in Australian politics. However, I guess on balance if this sets a precedent that globocorps are held accountable in some way in Australia, perhaps it could yet be of benefit for mere mortal Aussies rather than just He Who Must Not Be Named and his sewage pumping stations.
I feel like having the management of the global utility that is the Internet based in
a. a single country
b. a country with an unstable internal political situation
c. a country wherein the profit-seeking motive has been allowed to run rampant, to the point it has become a part of the culture and drives the political system
is essentially a dead-end. I would see the management of the TLDs brought under the control of a supranational organisation, or at the very least based in a country nominated after a supranational vetting process.
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