Re:Twitter locks account of China's US embassy over its defe...
by andrewflnr on Thursday January 21, 2021 @09:07PM
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Eh, 3 is the closest, but I can't say I like anything that involves directly mucking with existing companies. In my dream world, the government funds federated software to the point that it can compete with twitter for most people. It's unclear how realistic that is, I'm just very confident that government dictating moderation policy will go horribly wrong.
It seems there are perhaps three(?) options that come up:
1) Constrain big tech via regulation (thereby in some sense transferring the power to regulators/government, with the hope that it would in turn be influenced by democratic processes)
2) Or, directly influence big tech behaviour through boycotts and other consumer action.
3) Or, break up big tech forcibly or again through consumer action to switch to alternatives, thereby diffusing this power.
And you prefer 3. I think I do too.