Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o...
by Thorentis on Saturday September 17, 2022 @10:28PM
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The logical solution to this problem then, seems to be breaking up the amphitheatres. If these places are too big that we are forced to treat them as public squares, then we should pass laws that do not allow amphitheatres that large to exist.
Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o...
by solarmist on Saturday September 17, 2022 @10:43PM
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That actually seems like a pretty reasonable solution.
It would solve all the issues with private people/companies having too much sway. And the disconnect people have trying to reason about someone with that kind of world altering influence.
It would be like monopoly laws but for amphitheaters. I think we’d need to be much more aggressive with the definitions though and having fewer than 10s would trigger these laws.
I think this is the heart of the problem. These social media companies didn't merely build agoras, they built amphitheaters. They build amphitheaters so large that control over the amphitheater makes you a kingmaker. Now they can't let go of that control, because doing so would risk the wrong people using it.
They never should have built amphitheaters this large in the first place. Better if they had built thousands of smaller amphitheaters, or none at all. Stop giving anybody bullhorns that can reach millions of people. Let ideas reach millions of people the natural way. One person tells a few hundred people their ideas, using the un-amplified power of their own voice. If what they say has any sense, each of those hundreds can tell hundreds more, and each of those can tell hundreds more again. That's how one person can reach millions, without the existence of massive kingmaker amphitheaters.