[governance] Monetising socialisation

[parminder]

On Thursday 19 February 2015 01:03 AM, David Conrad wrote:
> Parminder,
> snip
>
>> Smacks of public street pay-off rackets involving petty businesses 
>> that most police forces in developing countries live off.
>
> Except by definition, police forces have the authority of law behind 
> them: you generally don't have a choice whether you obey the police or 
> not (at least if you want to stay out of jail or worse).
>
> If you don't like what Facebook does, instead of trying to spin up a 
> global regulatory regime to try to force your will on a private 
> company, why not simply stop using them?
>
> Regards,
> -drc

Dear David

I am not sure how to respond to this. There may be some kind of 
ideological polarisation here, if you really think that no matter what 
be the level of market power involved (and facebook's extreme market 
power is so obvious) or how deeply public interest oriented a particular 
service is (again, there can be little doubt in this regard in case of a 
basic social networking platform), the paradigm of 'individual choice' 
and the market is enough for all situation - we just do not ever require 
specific policies or regulation.

BTW, would you in that case also oppose net neutrality regulation, which 
again can be read as trying to force 'someone's will' on a private 
company - and of course there are people who use the same words for NN 
regulation? And what about regulating financial capital that so 
thoroughly ruined the world economy just a few years back? Can people 
just not stop using the telco or the bank they do not like rather than 
seek regulation?

  I myself do not use Facebook, but I am not talking here of a personal 
problem, rather a social one. It bothers me a lot professionally what 
the emerging digital techno-social architectures mean for people's 
rights, vibrant democratic media, transfer of value/ wealth across 
people, groups, classes, countries, etc, cultural rights and diversity, 
society's control over its socialisation processes (which is why 
education, and also media, is such a regulated sector), and so on. It is 
in this regard that I made a tentative construction of the problematique 
of the dangers of Facebook arbitrarily monetising everyday processes of 
socialising, without any public interest oversight. If this does not 
outrage you, I will accept that viewpoint as well.

regards
parminder



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