UK Labour Leader proposes a publicly-funded alternative to Facebook

Re:UK Labour Leader proposes a publicly-funded alternative t... by comice on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:35AM (#17828098)

aside from the fact that for a variety of reasons, the BBC is not truly independent, if it's possible to build such an independent media company "funded via tax" then why isn't it possible to do the same for a social media company?

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Re:UK Labour Leader proposes a publicly-funded alternative t... by afandian on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:46AM (#17828211)

There's a continuum of infrastructure from electricity, telephone, ISP, email, social media and beyond. If we can run national utilities at the start of that scale, not necessarily nationalized, but nationally regulated, I don't see why we can't run them at the other end of the scale.

I think the real problem is that current models of social media are dreadful, although I don't know of anything better.

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