The Metaverse and Its Discontents
The Lawfare Podcast
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I Don't Think the Existence of the Metiverse Is a Foregone Conclusion, Right?
The existence of the metiverse is a completely foregone conclusion at this point. The only question is, can we design it in a way as to minimize the negative effects? And i think we can. I just don't think face bok, as crrently constituted, is the right entity to do that. It requires an enormous number of individuals monitoring all these virtual spaces and probably a bunch of automata tools doing this. But when you then combine it with the fact that facebook itself does not have much of an incentive to respect user privacy, you create a digital world inside of a private for profit company. This is why open standards and protocols are so important.
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