What Should Be Done About Social Media?

Re:What Should Be Done About Social Media? by refurb on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:02PM (#25120155)

I'm not sure much would change if it were publicly owned. You'd still have political interference from whoever is in office. The same arguments over what's "disinformation", with the ruling party having a clear bias ("oh that negative story about me? disinformation").

And as well, no doubt the intelligence agencies will have a field day getting access to a public social media platform.

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Re:What Should Be Done About Social Media? by mandragon on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:10PM (#25120185)

All great points, which is why the architecture of a governing body that aims to satisfy the interests of end users while addressing your other concerns is foundational. The governing body wouldn't be fully under the authority of the three branches of government. Rather, a hybrid model that gives the people direct interest in social media governance would allow for desirable mutual outcomes.

The main goal is to remove the capitalist and private interests, while leveraging the good parts of our elected government, and also to directly integrate voices of the people.

The entire exercise is thus to develop such a governance specifically for social media. We could even create a "digital constitution" to re-think our democratic experiment in the age of social media.

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