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At what point do we recognize that privately owned social network is completely incompatible with the governments need for communicating with it's constituency
by Stranger43 5y ago
At what point do we recognize that privately owned social network is completely incompatible with the governments need for communicating with it's constituency and pull all government organization off those platforms?
It could easily be argues that any organization that reserves the right to ban users/contents outside that have yet been determined to be illegal by the courts cannot be considered electable for government contracts for communication services, as the government have an absolute duty the principles of due process, and have to give all of it's citizens equal access to all government funded services.
- fastball 5y agoI mean, I think a bunch of people (myself included) realized this a long time ago. If your real question is "at what point do we fix this?", it's unfortunately a bit of a catch-22: realistically we need to get rid of things like lobbying, two-party system, gerrymandering, etc. in order to get good reform going. Unfortunately fixing those things might be difficult before we reform social. Like ranked choice voting or something might be a good idea, but why would our existing selfish legislators vote for something that will effectively reduce their power by tbrowing non-left/right partisans into the mix.