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To start, I absolutely don't think this bill is good, BUT I think there might be potential for some interesting silver lining. Let's say it's passed and big pl
by MatekCopatek 5y ago
To start, I absolutely don't think this bill is good, BUT I think there might be potential for some interesting silver lining.
Let's say it's passed and big platforms such as FB need to start heavily policing their users because they become responsible for all published content. This level of moderation is nearly impossible to achieve, so they are forced to heavily limit participation (you can only post a limited amount, posts need to be confirmed before becoming public, AI filters auto-reject various topics etc.).
Users are pissed and move to platforms with "more freedom", but nothing lasts - as soon as they grow, they all hit those same issues.
Because all the responsibility is on the publisher, the only realistic solutions are smaller and more distributed communities. You can self publish your blog or create an invite-only forum/chatroom/Mastodon instance for your friends/family/neighbourhood.
Because now everyone is doing this, hosting providers, ISPs and software publishers adapt by improving UX and reducing technical barrier to entry. It's basically a reneissance of oldschool internet.
Whaddya say, too optimistic?
- bagacrap 5y agowhatever "self publish your blog" means, but if it's sufficiently easy for non technical users to figure out, no doubt it's a platform that can be subjected to this law. If it's not an easy-to-use platform it will deplatform and disengage the less sophisticated internet users. The old-school internet was mostly a few eccentrics no one paid attention to.
- MatekCopatek 5y agoDisagree - you could take the exact registration flow of any existing platform (e.g. Blogger) and adjust it so that instead of creating an account in their database (and consequently on their platform), it provisions a hosting account in your name and installs some blogging software there.