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I don't think there needs to be a government owned internet media company. Sometimes I wonder how weird and wild a government run social media company would be
by bloaf 5y ago
I don't think there needs to be a government owned internet media company.
Sometimes I wonder how weird and wild a government run social media company would be. Open to US citizens only, identity verification required? No rules other than actual speech laws? No anonymity?
- kart23 5y agoWe already have a government owned internet media company. https://www.voanews.com/ https://www.voanews.com/
- dredmorbius 5y agoUsenet was a first approximation of a government-run social network. I'm not suggesting that Usenet itself would serve as a model for a revived social discussion platform. But whilst it existed, it was supported in large part on the (publicy-funded) ARPANET, and through publicly-funded educational institutions (both public and private research universities relying strongly on government research funding, regardless of tuition income). In general parameters, it resembles the structure proposed in TFA: government funding, multiple independent institutions, many local and trusted serving their local communities. (Students, staff, and faculty rather than residents for the most part, but again, broadly, along the lines of what's being suggested.)