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An unlikely outcome that I'd like to see is the following: 1. Legislation makes current models impossible - I'm imagining something like Section 230 being repe
by MatekCopatek 6y ago
An unlikely outcome that I'd like to see is the following:
1. Legislation makes current models impossible - I'm imagining something like Section 230 being repealed, Twitter and Facebook being on the hook for anything anyone posts, which means they can't moderate and are forced to change their business model/effectively close shop.
2. People still want to blog/share/like.
3. Federated networks become a thing again because small communities are way easier to moderate. Nerds self host, regular people get accounts as part of their ISP subscription or pay a few bucks for some SaaS offering. Maybe a forward looking country gives you an e-identity on the official Mastodon instance where the ToS equals local law so we don't have to have that whole Twitter censorship discussion ever again.
4. Everyone lives happily ever after.
- EGreg 6y agoFor 3 to happen we would need better software. Do you have any suggestions that are the best in class?
- themacguffinman 6y agoThe repeal of Section 230 would mean more aggressive and large scale moderation, not less. Remember that the copyright liability incurred by DMCA and other copyright laws didn't kill YouTube, instead it directly led to the creation of ContentID.
- MatekCopatek 6y agoI know, my assumption was it would be so much more moderation that they couldn't handle it without completely ruining the user experience.