>> Under the bill the companies would be required to maintain an interface to facilitate interoperability.
This would be easily achieved with ActivityPub [0].
>> The bill would require communications platforms with more than 100 million monthly active members [...] to allow its users to easily move, or port, their data to another network...
That's the idea behind Berners-Lee's Solid [1].
I wish legislators were more in touch with open-source technology innovators. I feel the FOSS movement's philosophy and the idea of having collective technologies promoted and funded by the government go hand in hand.
Solid is not the first effort in this area, but the timing w.r.t. consumer sentiment and legislation, combined with the clout of TimBL, does make it feel like it has a serious shot at success.
(Disclosure: I work at inrupt, the main commercial player supporting Solid, founded by TimBL.)
This would be easily achieved with ActivityPub [0].
>> The bill would require communications platforms with more than 100 million monthly active members [...] to allow its users to easily move, or port, their data to another network...
That's the idea behind Berners-Lee's Solid [1].
I wish legislators were more in touch with open-source technology innovators. I feel the FOSS movement's philosophy and the idea of having collective technologies promoted and funded by the government go hand in hand.
[0] https://activitypub.rocks/
[1] https://solid.inrupt.com/