Ask HN: Can public internet services solve privacy issues online?
Would having our government&#x2F;s create public internet services like Search, Maps, Storage(Drive), Social Media solve our privacy issues?<p>If our governments created this service, we&#x27;d have more oversight into how these services are monetized and why decisions are made. We could avoid data exploitation by designing applications that don&#x27;t save as much personal data.<p>Open source developers could contribute to the code base and not worry about &quot;keeping the project alive&quot; as its backed by the government.<p>The main issues I can think of are around quality of service (Gov services are known to be slow and frustrating) and continuous innovation.<p>Thoughts?