MySpace might be taken down by (1) Litigation- Hey, it's US based. All it takes is one judge/jury to go a little crazy (2) Legislation- that's how the gaming sites have gone to Zero in the US. The authoritarian crazies (people like Hillary on the Left who want to ban games, and a ton of people on the Right who are just religious control freaks) might well pass laws to "protect" people from themselves (3) Privacy- when people wake up to the fact that the details of their lives are valuable and sharing them freely is an invitation to disaster
Shripriya
· 3 years ago
Hi Krishna,
Re: 1, not sure this is a huge issue. First, what's the litigation about? Yes, this can happen, but for copyright? (there's You Tube, which is a far bigger target). Re: 2, I think this is very different from gaming (which is against the law in the US. Even if you disagree, there is such a law). People expressing themselves (which is what most of MySpace is about) and artists promoting themselves doesn't really lend to legislation in my book. Re: 3, I agree with you that this could be an issue. People don't realize that the online stuff lives forever. And as they realize this, they might be more careful. But I believe the genie is out of the bottle on self-expression -- the internet enables this like no other time in history and people will make the tradeoff of privacy versus creativity. But you're right, there's way too much information out there.
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(1) Litigation- Hey, it's US based. All it takes is one judge/jury to go a little crazy
(2) Legislation- that's how the gaming sites have gone to Zero in the US. The authoritarian crazies (people like Hillary on the Left who want to ban games, and a ton of people on the Right who are just religious control freaks) might well pass laws to "protect" people from themselves
(3) Privacy- when people wake up to the fact that the details of their lives are valuable and sharing them freely is an invitation to disaster
Re: 1, not sure this is a huge issue. First, what's the litigation about? Yes, this can happen, but for copyright? (there's You Tube, which is a far bigger target).
Re: 2, I think this is very different from gaming (which is against the law in the US. Even if you disagree, there is such a law). People expressing themselves (which is what most of MySpace is about) and artists promoting themselves doesn't really lend to legislation in my book.
Re: 3, I agree with you that this could be an issue. People don't realize that the online stuff lives forever. And as they realize this, they might be more careful. But I believe the genie is out of the bottle on self-expression -- the internet enables this like no other time in history and people will make the tradeoff of privacy versus creativity. But you're right, there's way too much information out there.
Good discussion - thanks for your post!