On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:34:01AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > tomas writes: > > I think bigcorps love that, because they hate the decentralized nature > > of mail. > > I don't think they care (except that they don't want one of their > competitors in control).
Oh, they do. You can't easily monetize mail (the interfaces are standard, for a consumer it's easy to change providers), whereas with whichever "platform" (Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, Google+, younameit) the audience is captive: changing provider means giving up on your network. > Government hates it, of course. It would have > been easy to adopt anti-spam measures that would have made what you do > impossible, but it wasn't done. I have the impression you're being blindsided by ideology there. To me, Bigcorp is like state (minus First Amendment). > > Spam pressure plus measures making the live of small mail providers > > [difficult] help centralization. > > This is true. People also seem to like centralization, unfortunately. > > > This is what I call Emergent Evil. I thon't think there's a single > > person out there scheming out those things, but a corporation as a > > whole does come up with that kind of perverse behaviour. > > Better "emergent evil" (I've seen the term elsewhere) than the "devil" > theory but I don't think it is useful to talk about evil at all. They > are just people doing what works for them (even in government, the > biggest and most powerful bigcorp of all). I had early and intense religious education. Not trying to offend anyone, but I had my share of devil and then some. These days I prefer to make do without :-) Cheers -- t
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
