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I honestly think the worst thing we could do to social media is treat it like the telephone service. Have people used telephones recently? The network is so in

I honestly think the worst thing we could do to social media is treat it like the telephone service. Have people used telephones recently? The network is so infiltrated by scam artists (and the tooling to remove them from the network is so toothless) that it's functionally one giant attack vector against the most vulnerable telephone users these days. The fact that Google is trumpeting adding AI to a phone to detect when you are getting scammed is indicative of how badly the network has been poisoned by the lack of anyone's ability to regulate access. We already know what an unfettered free-expression network looks like. It looks like telephone and email. It's a scammer's playground.

corinroyal 2y ago
Yes. This is exactly the argument the EFF makes. Utility-style regulation involves the government picking winners who become unresponsive monopolies. Notice how OpenAI is eager to be regulated. They know that means they win. That's the opposite of what we need the FAANGS et al. to become. And personally, I don't want the government telling me how to moderate my network. The EFF recommendation is anti-trust enforcement to insure these services don't hold American communications hostage. We must attack their moats to enable smaller competitors to have at more level playing field.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
  The problem is social media is inherently anti competitive. It relies on network effects, so you have to either limit their size or use utility style regulation.