@jMantecoso Interdasting. Can you share any details, or a project link?
I’d much prefer to see organic alternatives to [TWT/FB/TY/Etc] spring up and flourish - but they have to be a better user experience in order to draw the user bases away.
The existing technocrat class is a problem.
@chanceellis What’s clear is that they are not neutral actors. Promoting one set of views, often while accepting compensation, while burying/suppressing another set of views isn’t neutral.
Further, outsourcing veracity checking to partisan organizations, such as SPLC, is a convenient dodge.
@chanceellis Ironically, all of the social media companies were big into Net Neutrality, calling for Service Providers to be regulated as common carriers.
Perhaps a taste of their own medicine would be good for all.
Their ability to shape the public narrative is indisputable.
The thing we're supposed to be trading, in exchange for our privacy and personal data, is a platform from which to be heard...
https://t.co/iJs2fUKS8T #1a#censorship
"Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write."
- Voltaire, letter to M. le Riche, February 6, 1770
Do we all still believe this?
#InternetBillOfRights
https://t.co/PlvrVzdphE