It’s hard to trust the intent behind this Jacobin piece, especially because the article is unclear on what problems it is trying to solve and therefore comes of

It’s hard to trust the intent behind this Jacobin piece, especially because the article is unclear on what problems it is trying to solve and therefore comes off as purely ideologically motivated. It seems like this is walking exactly the path of past socialist authoritarian regimes, where eventual total public control (AKA party or ideological control) comes into being in the name of empowering the common man and “Democratizing”. But how long before public control starts limiting the freedom of the internet by imposing rules on what’s allowed and not allowed in even more heavy-handed ways? Given that the far left (like Jacobin) have been rallying _against_ free speech and mocking it online with “freeze peach” memes, I am terrified at the possibility of them eventually ceasing control of speech platforms. Mind you, I’m not a big fan of the current state either, with a few companies controlling everything. But we have tools for that - namely anti-trust law. So let’s take incremental steps for change rather than entertaining dangerously radical changes.