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What if we made it a law that like services must interoperate without interop fees to the consumer? Like all payment systems must connect, it's up to them how they do it, but they must. Same with voice calling systems. The penalty for non-compliance being a revenue tax on proprietary services (that don't interop).
The goal would be to discourage Walled Gardens, and raise revenue to fund protocol research and proof of concept projects. What might be some of the unintended consequences?
@strypey THIS! THIS! Yes Pleeease!!
@Photo55
> Mobile phone networks rather have it, and that's the model
True, but by what mechanism? Have networks ever voluntarily established interop at scale, or has it been driven everywhere it's happened by customer protection rules?
@strypey I've no
direct knowledge but I think it was combinations of exhortation, agreement, regulation, and self-interest. And the EU doing, carefully and once it reached consensus, sensible things.
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