It may soon be time to revisit the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
It’s becoming a bit anachronistic.
Don’t really understand the question. Anti-trust is the preferred way to deal with very powerful abusive companies. Regulation is the other choice, and usually leads to regulatory capture by the very powerful abusive companies.
In the end there may be just one global company that will build the matrix. The barrier to entry will be absolute and thought will be regulated.
All because evil makes a better user interface.
IRC had the right model. Anybody could create their own channel with no barrier to entry. A search API with no political bias would allow equal footing to all (is that possible? I would think so.)
I also think we should eliminate the concept of intellectual property. I don’t buy the argument this reduces content. The example of Paramount stifling fan films would be one example.
Just because the IP model works for some doesn’t mean it’s sacrosanct. Bands can make money from performance and direct sales. If they lose money because others are free to copy that just encourages them to produce more content, not less. Creativity doesn’t have an upper bound and free sharing produces more, not less. False attribution is the thing to penalize.
IP is a lot like private property rights though. Why would people create if they can’t profit from their creation?
The Diaspora social network embraced the idea of a multitude of independently operated nodes, but the people operating the project didn’t have the technical design chops to start with a proper interface between nodes. Get a good interface design and people aren’t held hostage to the weaknesses of a particular implementation.
Libertarianism runs into these pitfalls all the time.
In a pure libertarian world,
The world is not a utopia and never will be. I don’t think I would like to live in a libertarian utopia any more than I would a communist one. It could very well be the former leads to the latter too.
Do libertarians say there just hasn’t been the right libertarian leader to bring the ideology to the masses?
It may soon be time to revisit the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
It’s becoming a bit anachronistic.
Don’t really understand the question. Anti-trust is the preferred way to deal with very powerful abusive companies. Regulation is the other choice, and usually leads to regulatory capture by the very powerful abusive companies.
In the end there may be just one global company that will build the matrix. The barrier to entry will be absolute and thought will be regulated.
All because evil makes a better user interface.
IRC had the right model. Anybody could create their own channel with no barrier to entry. A search API with no political bias would allow equal footing to all (is that possible? I would think so.)
I also think we should eliminate the concept of intellectual property. I don’t buy the argument this reduces content. The example of Paramount stifling fan films would be one example.
Just because the IP model works for some doesn’t mean it’s sacrosanct. Bands can make money from performance and direct sales. If they lose money because others are free to copy that just encourages them to produce more content, not less. Creativity doesn’t have an upper bound and free sharing produces more, not less. False attribution is the thing to penalize.
IP is a lot like private property rights though. Why would people create if they can’t profit from their creation?
The Diaspora social network embraced the idea of a multitude of independently operated nodes, but the people operating the project didn’t have the technical design chops to start with a proper interface between nodes. Get a good interface design and people aren’t held hostage to the weaknesses of a particular implementation.
Libertarianism runs into these pitfalls all the time.
In a pure libertarian world,
The world is not a utopia and never will be. I don’t think I would like to live in a libertarian utopia any more than I would a communist one. It could very well be the former leads to the latter too.
Do libertarians say there just hasn’t been the right libertarian leader to bring the ideology to the masses?