Maybe because our government isn’t founded by big companies to keep their interests, and we do care about privacy and well been of the users?
Because American politicians can be openly and directly bribed. They can be bribed so easily and severely that the US will threaten sanctions on Europe if they try to regulate facebook. Of course facebook would never worry about the grip it has on US “democracy”. Not to say they don’t totally own certain parts of the EU as well, mainly Ireland, but at least it’s not the whole of Europe.
I wonder if end to end encription can be used to augment social websites in such a way that the host avoids all liability. Technically all data becomes non-public, but the key exchange algorithm is so well integrated that the users don’t notice.
There is no privacy improvement, but technically the information in the network is private. The real feature is that the company can’t be required to monitor content actively and the user creation process renders bans ineffective.
Obviously it would be much less profitable then a website that can process and sell it’s users data. And it’s much less likely that advertisers will wish to show content on it.
I don’t think Facebook cares much about Europe, the money that place could generate is maxxed out now. It’s all downhill from now.
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Maybe because our government isn’t founded by big companies to keep their interests, and we do care about privacy and well been of the users?
Because American politicians can be openly and directly bribed. They can be bribed so easily and severely that the US will threaten sanctions on Europe if they try to regulate facebook. Of course facebook would never worry about the grip it has on US “democracy”. Not to say they don’t totally own certain parts of the EU as well, mainly Ireland, but at least it’s not the whole of Europe.
I wonder if end to end encription can be used to augment social websites in such a way that the host avoids all liability. Technically all data becomes non-public, but the key exchange algorithm is so well integrated that the users don’t notice.
There is no privacy improvement, but technically the information in the network is private. The real feature is that the company can’t be required to monitor content actively and the user creation process renders bans ineffective.
Obviously it would be much less profitable then a website that can process and sell it’s users data. And it’s much less likely that advertisers will wish to show content on it.
I don’t think Facebook cares much about Europe, the money that place could generate is maxxed out now. It’s all downhill from now.
East Asia is all that matters.