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0 pointsbawolff5y ago0 comments

> I’m sure each of you will be shocked to hear that Google & FB each have been hostile to the process form the start and have missed meetings

A powerful company resisting a process from which they have nothing to gain. Shocking!

If you want people to come together, you need to give both sides something to gain (or put a (metaphorical) gun to one sides head). Of course fb is going to resist a process where they only stand to lose something and the best outcome possible for them is the status quo. Wouldn't you also resist such a meeting?

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cool_dude855y ago

No, if you're the guy who writes the laws, you're allowed to just tell people what to do. That's the deal with laws.

bawolffOP5y ago

As i said, you can also put a gun to someone's head (law is based on the state's monopoly on violence).

However if you're the guy who writes the laws in australia, you have less (but still some) power over american corporations.

logicchains5y ago

You're allowed to tell people what to do, but you can't make them do it, they can always choose not to. Worst case you get millions of people starving rather than doing what you try to make them do, like in communist Russia/China.

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