As you rightly say, before fb, there were several platforms that competed, but it turned out that on a globally operating, platform economy, the winner takes it all, and thus there is now only fb (and a few others that compete for their niches), a monopolist, that dictates the rules for everyone, this is a possibility, because corps can act globally, but laws are local, eos with a globally set up - binding! - governance , would be able to rebalance this, but is now threatened, to become yet another uninspired chain, with maybe a solid tech base, but that's certainly not an usp for long....
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You are assuming Facebook will remain the winner.
If you believe in some type of centralized global governance structure for EOS then I think we've reached a point whereby we differ politically.
We could easily deploy a smart contract interface that describes to the user the following information before s/he even decides to interact with the dapp:
I think a lot of supporters of ECAF assume that if we don't have rulers in charge at the base layer then there isn't going to be any kind of alternative and we're all going to hell in a handcart. This simply isn't true.
Yes, I fear we will remain in disagreement about this.. I was looking to better understand the v2 position, but i still don't. I am not talking about fb as it is but principals of platform economy with fb as an example.
What you describe is not much different from what we already have with scatter, have you tried to check the ricardian tab of dapps? In just so many dapps that remains simply empty... How will you ever determine the intent of code of that? My point is, if you don't have governance on the base layer, how will you ever be able to - now I say the bad word - enforce that the core principals are respected?
This is something the community will need to be educated on; don’t use a dapp that doesn’t have a Recardian contract or names a list of arbitration forums that one can choose from in the event of a dispute. Just like using a website without SSL certification is a risk today - there needs to be a level of personal responsibility people take in all of this too. Even my 70 year old mom knows not to use a website that doesn’t have a green padlock.
Through {regarbitrator} and now {approveforum} users and dapps will have the freedom of choice to come together and choose which arbitration forum is right for their dapp. The thing with being an open source free market is that if one dapp doesn’t offer the user enough choice, a new one will emerge that does.