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Re:Trump’s WeChat curbs halted by judge on free speech concerns by MilnerRoute on Sunday September 20, 2020 @01:29PM (#24535515)
Maybe the U.S. should fund its own social network?

In the 1960s it created a government-funded television network to offer alternative programming. But television is an old medium, and less of a source of information today -- partly because it's been supplanted by social media.

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Re:Trump’s WeChat curbs halted by judge on free speech concerns by MilnerRoute on Sunday September 20, 2020 @01:30PM (#24535522)
This has been one of my favorite thought experiments in a while.

It seems like there's inevitably going to be a need for some kind of content moderation -- but maybe that could be handled by local librarians, local newspapers. (At least that's a solution that actually scales.)

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Re:Trump’s WeChat curbs halted by judge on free speech concerns by lmg643 on Sunday September 20, 2020 @02:55PM (#24536354)
yes...and they could call it LifeLog!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog

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Re:Trump’s WeChat curbs halted by judge on free speech concerns by djsumdog on Sunday September 20, 2020 @02:45PM (#24536247)
Join the Fediverse! Join a Mastodon, Pleroma or MissKey instance, or set on up. Follow some random people and start talking. It's like 90s chat rooms all over again!
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