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I'm mostly tired of this take, especially by technologists. First off: you're right. You can't compel a private company to support speech. But the entirety of
by 23B1 6y ago
I'm mostly tired of this take, especially by technologists.
First off: you're right. You can't compel a private company to support speech. But the entirety of political discourse happens online now. There's a clear and prevailing interest that free speech can happen online, at scale.
- maxwell 6y agoHonestly, the market will take care of it: who's comfortable hosting their content on the platform any more? They've alienated the right and the left. At the end of the day/century, FB is just a random internet site/app. Discourse is online, yes, but the zeitgeist left FB years ago. Zuck's fate will catch up with him fast, now that their network effect has broken, or is close to doing so. It's already over. FB/IG/WhatsApp are all clearly dead, in the Grahamian sense.
- 23B1 6y agoSure, but you're also missing the downstream consequences/chilling effects. Maybe you're right insofar as it should motivate people to create new platforms, but with even the cloud operators willing to deep-six a business... well I don't know about you but I can't afford to host a social media site with hundreds of thousands of users in my basement anymore – not to mention the credit cards, banks, and payment services now willing to kickban anyone they don't like...