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"These services are utilities, sometimes monopolies, and must be regulated as such." Maybe we could just start with regulating The Internet as common carrier i
by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
"These services are utilities, sometimes monopolies, and must be regulated as such."
Maybe we could just start with regulating The Internet as common carrier instead of an "information service".
Anyone who is disappointed with the content of the "speech" they see on a particular "network" (a website/endpoint), should study the case of Usenet. Disprove this hypothesis: Unmoderated "public discourse" on a computer network has a tendency to descend into a sewer.
The only difference today in terms of this phenomena is the number of users of the "network" (website/endpoint) or computer network (internet).
Maybe "networks" used for communication need to migrate to "mesh" instead of "hub and spoke". Perhaps websites were not meant to have billions of pages and be called "networks".
- basch 6y ago>Unmoderated "public discourse" on a computer network has a tendency to descend into a sewer. A stream of sewage can still be shined into liquid gold by a sufficiently intelligent client, that chooses what to ingest and what to ignore.
- pwdisswordfish2 6y agoCertainly the problem can be seen as one of clients. The "modern web browsers" are instruments for fueling the dumpster fire. For the web, I wrote my own "user agent". A client that has zero intelligence however it is fully under the user's control. The intelligence lies with the user, not the third party authors of the client (with their business purposes and conflicts of interest).