Why Hasn't the US Government Provided Civilian Social Networks? Well in a weird way the government already provides this just not in the way that aligns with t

Why Hasn't the US Government Provided Civilian Social Networks? Well in a weird way the government already provides this just not in the way that aligns with the citizens intent. Facebook originally project lifelog was a government project that came out of Stanford SRI. The other side of that coin is that legally being a non government institution they can coerce FB into censorship or controlling the narratives. Google was also a government project to learn birds of a feather patterns of citizens around the world. They still receive a lot of tax dollars and effectively free real-estate. I doubt that golden goose is going away any time soon meaning that they are not going to create something that is officially a .gov social media site as they would not be permitted to censor or control narratives and the tax burden would be massive without going through government specific VC's such as In-Q-Tel. This discussion [1] had some ideas that might work from distributed infrastructure but would still increase the tax burden. at very least for those of us that can use email as an alternative to corporate capture portals [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36602008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36602008