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if such things are meant to be monopolistic, then the state should manage it.

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if such things are meant to be monopolistic

I think there's a very important truth in this sentence!

then the state should manage it

Do states have such a good track record with Internet tech.? I'm thinking of Korea and their mandated shopping encryption ActiveX.

IoT security is another are where lots of bad things are happening and an argument for state management could be made. How about the control of all IoT things, like webcams and smart assistants, go through government infrastructure? That way, they can 1) enforce security practices and 2) actually implement Orwell's total surveillance state from 1984.

The difference is that you can't really manipulate the power grid to favor a political party. You can do that with Google or Facebook.

Which state?

You want the state in charge of managing communications between friends and family members?

In the same way/to the same degree that the state manages the phone lines and the postal system, I suppose.

Yes, in the same way they had to bust Ma Bell for the same damned reasons we’re seeing again. Let the state be the dumb pipe or at least ensure that the pipes stay dumb. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than the alternative.

The state already unofficially manages, manipulates, and spies on communication.

Rather than private corporations who turn around and exploit private communications between friends and family members for maximum profit? Yes.

The state could abuse its power: companies do abuse their power, because to do otherwise would reduce shareholder profits.

I want the state to specify restrictions on how companies can use the data transmitted in private messages on social networks.

The state already has extremely heavy involvement in management of the telephone system. There is plenty of precedent for this being generally benevolent authority.

There are technological solutions that could maximize privacy but they are not in use because the private service provider needs to snoop in on your conversations to build a profile of your life. With a public service we could have a system engineered to maximize privacy. Not to mention real transparency and oversight that is no possible with private services.

With a public service we would have a system engineered poorly, like healthcare.gov. The government can't do that kind of thing well.

Then state should do what they did to make healthcare.gov work on the second time through. The roll out sucked but it's perfectly fine now

more than i want facebook or google to, yes.

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