Re: not a utility, was Parler

[Karl Auer <kauer () biplane com au>]

On Mon, 2021-01-11 at 12:19 +0000, Rod Beck wrote:
> Declare Facebook a public utility and eliminate advertising by
> replacing with a fee or what you call a tariff. Breaking up does not
> always work. Facebook is like a natural monopoly - people want one
> site to connect with all their 'friends'. No one is going to use
> several Facebooks as social media platform. They want one.

"The DNS is a natural monopoly. People want one resolver so they can
connect with all their 'sites'. No one is going to use several
nameservers for domain name resolution. They want one."

Nah. The DNS is a natural distributed database, with authoritative data
held by those with the most interest in its accuracy. But unlike DNS
data, there is money in collecting all the facebooky things - IF you
are allowed to sell them. Stop that, and Facebook is a natural
distributed database too.

But how to stop it - that is the question...

Regards, K.

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