It's not your imagination: tech really *is* underregulated. There are plenty of avoidable harms that tech visits upon the world, and while some of these harms are mere negligence, others are self-serving, creating shareholder value *and* widespread public destruction.
--
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/20/scalesplaining/#administratability
1/
@pluralistic When you boil it down, talking Big Tech is about talking software these days, and not too many in the business are measuring or applying meaningful metrics to software. Capers Jones and e.g., IFPUG have a lot of data and some good methods, but not too many are using their methods and data. This results in a lot of crappy software (apps, languages, tools, OSes, ...) with no empirical measure of its crappiness. #regulation please!
