For so many reasons, nation-states are waking up to the reality that so long as the filters of commerce, trade, and discourse, are run through those hired by international corpo-states with no direct accountability to the states they operate in, the fundamental ability to mold the citizens into their own image is out of their hands.
Google Inc and Facebook will redefine the human into its own global moral supremacist form, even if it works against your nation-states sovereign power and interest, even if it works against the interest of the most powerful families that represent the real power advantage in your lands.
South Korea appeared ready to drop a mega hammer on the Digital Empires with no loyalty to any one land when all of the sudden a pause was announced. What could be happening, perhaps, would be wild speculation on my part, but I suspect what’s going on is a little horse trading behind the scenes.
What the families want to know is this, can you create a world in our image that our citizens can’t break? And will you give us a fat cut of that sweet coin you’re getting, and also, and perhaps most of all, give us your date, please. For the love of all power and prestige, give us your data.
The families of power of this century, should we wary on this coercive path, will be the ones that hold server farms of micro-data on micro-actions of the things and the agents that could potentially be manipulated if you had their secret codes, the mathematical patterns of their being.
Let’s see if I’m right, as the days march on, and an announcement is made for a deal, or if the hammer falls. If it’s not South Korea, it will be someplace else, and even as we speak many nation-states are preparing to build or ban social media to re-establish their control of what might be within the frames that serve THEIR vehicles of power, not silicon valley, the valley of Empire Capitals, but not the only one like it in the world.
South Korea’s parliament delays final vote on ‘anti-Google law’ – TechCrunch
From californianewstimes.com
2021-08-25 22:15:47
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If passed, TechCrunch’s own Kate Park wrote, “Korea will be the first country to ban such global tech giants from imposing a billing system on in-app purchases.” Not surprisingly, Apple and Google are against this move.
More headlines on South Korean Fake news Law
Apple, Google App Store Models Face New Threat in South Korea – Bloomberg
From www.bloomberg.com
2021-08-25 09:48:26
Excerpt:
President Moon Jae-in’s Democratic Party used its parliamentary supermajority to push out of committee a bill that would ban companies from forcing developers to use their online payment systems. The ruling party’s heft in the National Assembly suggests the Telecommunications Business Act is highly likely to pass Monday when the next full session takes place.
The legislation threatens to undercut a lucrative revenue stream for two of America’s largest companies, which between them control downloads and payments for the vast majority of smartphone apps. That dominance has drawn lawsuits from developers like Epic Games Inc. who accuse Apple and Google of charging unfairly high commissions and blocking competing services.
South Korean parliament committee votes to curb Google, Apple commission dominance
From thestarphoenix.com
2021-08-25 08:44:40
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SEOUL — A South Korean parliamentary committee voted on Wednesday to recommend amending a law, a key step toward banning Google and Apple from forcibly charging software developers commissions on in-app purchases, the first such curb by a major economy.
Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google have faced global criticism because they require software developers using their app stores to use proprietary payment systems that charge commissions of up to 30 per cent.
In a statement on Tuesday, Apple said the bill “will put users who purchase digital goods from other sources at risk of fraud, undermine their privacy protections,” hurt user trust in App Store purchases and lead to fewer opportunities for South Korean developers.
South Korea may ban Apple, Google from forcing store payment systems on app devs • The Register
From www.theregister.com
2021-08-26 18:23:00
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South Korea is potentially on its way to tweaking its Telecommunications Business Act to stop Apple and Google from taking a cut of in-app purchases after a bill was approved by a committee of its National Assembly.
The bill was put to a vote on Wednesday by the country’s legislation and judiciary committee, but it still has to go through a final vote in parliament, pencilled in for Monday.
If it does pass, the tweak to the Act will mean that companies with dominant market positions – like Apple and Google – will not be allowed to require software developers on their platforms to choose their respective app store’s payment systems for users to download paid-for apps or make in-app purchases.
The move comes after Google clarified to Korean devs in September last year that they would be required to “use the Google Play payment system when offering in-app purchases of digital goods and pay a certain…
From www.theregister.com
2021-08-26 04:57:00
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Facebook, Netflix and Google have all received reprimands or fines, and an order to make corrective action, from South Korea’s government data protection watchdog, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC).
The PIPC announced a privacy audit last year and has revealed that three companies – Facebook, Netflix and Google – were in violations of laws and had insufficient privacy protection.
Facebook alone was ordered to pay 6.46 billion won (US$5.5m) for creating and storing facial recognition templates of 200,000 local users without proper consent between April 2018 and September 2019.
Another 26 million won (US$22,000) penalty was issued for illegally collecting social security numbers, not issuing notifications regarding personal information management changes, and other missteps.
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