Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019)

Re:Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Fre... by throwaway894345 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:35PM (#25947730)

Personally I think it's a security problem that Pillow Man's LARPer mob constituted a credible threat to our National Security. This doesn't seem like cause to restrict speech. (Of course, Twitter is technically a private platform, but it's also the de facto public square as I discussed elsewhere in this thread, and the property we ought to care about is that free speech is protected in the public square).

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Re:Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Fre... by lallysingh on Thursday January 28, 2021 @03:36PM (#25948759)

I think the Free Speech problem is really a problem of automatic amplification by platforms that have motivations sometimes opposed to the well-being of the speakers or listenrrs.

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Re:Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Fre... by throwaway894345 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @03:58PM (#25949098)

Maybe, but even then the "free speech problem" should never have become a "national security problem". National security aside, free speech works pretty well when the public square isn't privatized by a handful of entities with the same general business model (using outrage to sell ads), which is perhaps your very point.

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