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Make it all dumb pipes and make users responsible for regulating what they see/hear. Make a market for filtering content, one great filter across a platform is
by thoughtstheseus 6y ago
Make it all dumb pipes and make users responsible for regulating what they see/hear. Make a market for filtering content, one great filter across a platform is not flexible.
Require platforms over a certain size to provide real-time data accessibility across platforms. Facebook and Twitter are monopolies by virtue of market position, anyone can build a platform that is functionally the same. Create competition here.
- throwawaygh 6y agoThis sounds like an excellent idea, but I'm worried about architecture/execution/implementation. Generally successful regulations set goals but don't prescribe how those goals should be met. There doesn't seem to be a super clean separation between "what" and "how" here.
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoImplementations exist: Microsoft provides parental control filters, OpenDNS has community-driven content classification.
- throwawaygh 6y agoRight. Building it is definitely not an Unsolved Problem, just like building a healthcare exchange website is not an Unsolved Problem. The problem is organizational and political, not technical.
- stronglikedan 6y ago> Make it all dumb pipes and make users responsible for regulating what they see/hear. Just like the good old days, until somebody "thought of the children".