You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments
70 points

There needs to be a legally mandated option to turn off all recommendations and tracking, and to require consent to enable it in the first place.

permalink
report
reply
33 points

So pretty much just an extension of GDPR. Sounds good.

permalink
report
parent
reply
17 points

Or the courts should force MS to split off into an os company, an online services company, an office productivity software company, and a gaming company.

permalink
report
parent
reply
13 points

If we had an actual anti-monopoly/umbrella corporation law that would be badass.

Hell Amazon would tank instantly, since they just operate on pumping AWS profits into their loss leader (Amazon delivery) constantly.

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

So would Google to some extent. This actually sounds like a good plan. We should go back to the 90’s antitrust law. Before we made it toothless and basically unenforceable.

permalink
report
parent
reply
5 points

Fuck yeah! Lets do some trust bustin!

permalink
report
parent
reply

Technology

!technology@lemmy.world

Create post

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


Community stats

  • 18K

    Monthly active users

  • 12K

    Posts

  • 538K

    Comments