Making takedowns automatic on any user report means the dictators take down the apps of the dissidents.
In the absence of AI that would necessarily have to be good enough to also radically change society and the economy, the only solution I can even think of is a big increase in funding for the policing of apps. Who exactly would fund that? Governments would want to use such powers to pursue their own agendas, while Big Tech taking a proportion of App Store income is already being called “[Apple|Google] tax”.
Or we could use a different architecture for our applications that isn't so easily taken down. You know like locally installed apps, that can do something without the cloud overlord pushing new code with every pixel or character that is transmitted.
How would that stop, to go up-thread a bit, "an advertiser … that was using JavaScript … to fingerprint user's devices and if an Android device was detected a fake media player or fake CAPTCHA would trick user's into accepting push notifications for fake virus warnings to install questionable apps from the Play Store"?
Why can’t we we reduce cloud provider margins and use that money to fund it!
I mean — why is this not obvious? Force these companies to adhere to certain regulatory standards - the minimum of which is transparency and accountability.
Making takedowns automatic on any user report means the dictators take down the apps of the dissidents.
In the absence of AI that would necessarily have to be good enough to also radically change society and the economy, the only solution I can even think of is a big increase in funding for the policing of apps. Who exactly would fund that? Governments would want to use such powers to pursue their own agendas, while Big Tech taking a proportion of App Store income is already being called “[Apple|Google] tax”.