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When megacorps are as big and powerful as they are, I agree they shouldn’t just be allowed to perform private censorship (or a lot of other things). Free speech
by blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
When megacorps are as big and powerful as they are, I agree they shouldn’t just be allowed to perform private censorship (or a lot of other things). Free speech isn’t just an issue America can be complacent about - it has to be defended to have a working democracy. Size (like number of users) should result in regulation so tech companies operate more like a utility or public square.
- jfengel 2y agoI don't see how you can tell the megacorps that they're not allowed to block spam. Without that, they become unusable. And once you've set the precedent that megacorps have a legitimate reason to limit speech for the good of their users, it's not clear where you stop. Is it legal for users to block other users? Or to delete something like a call for violence? How about this for a counter-proposal: a national, free, immutable, zero-oversight storage system. Just a vast S3 cluster where anybody can say anything they want, and anybody can read it. Maybe with some built-in indexing so that anybody can implement a social network on top of it. It would literally guarantee free speech, and we wouldn't have to worry about the profit motive. I don't think it would even cost all that much.