@codesections > Apple gets a cut of all app store revenue and so has an incentive to discourage sideloading.
At what point do #antitrust regulators click on that this is grossly anti-competitive behaviour (as is Apple's refusal to allow #copyleft software in its #iThing app stores), and take action? @cancel
"If drivers incorporated their own joint venture, they could reduce their #antitrust liability exposure risk while protecting their ability to coordinate in their negotiations with ride-share companies and their interactions with customers. Drivers could maintain the same compensation structure and flexibility as they do contracting directly with the platforms ... while donating a portion, equivalent to the amount they might otherwise pay in union dues, to their newly formed #Uber Drivers Inc."
> using ad blockers again tries to fix things conveniently on the consumer side
1) #FreeCode licenses and #copyleft try to fix things conveniently on the consumer side as well. Waiting for some kind of regulation like #GDPR or #AntiTrust suites to stop companies from abusing #Adware as #Spyware would be about as effective as waiting for states to enforce protection of #SoftwareFreedom through regulation and court action. Still waiting ...
The third part is also notable for its framing of the internet's role in disinformation. Basically the net = the major #DataFarms (FB etc), and "regulation" of Silicon Valley = increased government control over internet speech (not #AntiTrust action). It's a framing I first noticed in the otherwise excellent Adam Curtis series '... Machines of Loving Grace ...', in #FredTurner's 'counterculture to cyberculture' discourse, and in a hit piece on the #EFF by #YashaLevine, published in the #Baffler.