> > You can have all the apps and Internet fun you like, but to > betray democracy must be technically impossible. Such an > abuse-resistant Internet is possible. Society has to care > and to regulate. >
A general concern should be who does the regulation and to what ends? The UN is questionable, since the majority of its members are autocrats. The non-autocrats are typically controlled by the large corporations. I think the question of how to have a globally open forum for legitimate discourse is probably unsolvable, since I do not think we can have a consensus on what "legitimate discourse" is. Should it allow antifa? Should it include racists? How do you fact check? If you exclude antifa and racists (I am not drawing an equivalency here, I am just citing groups that would be likely to be excluded), wouldn't you be excluding the dis-satisfied groups that are disturbing democratic norms? I wonder, honestly, if an abuse resistant platform is possible. Also, I wonder if it would be desirable. And, I have no good answers to any of these questions. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing the moderator at zakwh...@stanford.edu.
