Some lucid thoughts from Mitchell Baker of Mozilla on strategies for the net beyond de-platforming.
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Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.
this is a great start. click on an ad to see the metadata information would be amazing. that said, it will only matter if we actually know who the companies are. more work to dismantle shell companies is needed as well as more transparency about spending on political campaigns.
things i’d add to his her list are:
- tamping down on bots
- and any social media company above a certain large number of users becomes subject to laws that regulate them as public spaces. similar to the way retail stores, malls, and airlines have extra rules on how they need to handle political speech and facility access. ( a partial answer to the question
heshe posed “Is that decision-making power theirs alone?” )
[ edit to show you really shouldn’t make assumptions on a first name basis unless you are on a first name basis. thanks @audaxaxon for the correction and the background on her. ]
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Yeah, the transparency part would be huge - shedding more awareness on things like Rebecca Mercer’s backing of Parler. Definitely some parallelisms in your second bullet to issues re. Citizens United, underscoring how important the composition of SCOTUS is going to be in shaping the landscape of the future as more novel tech presents us with unprecedented social conditions.
Mitchell Baker is one of the key founders of Mozilla, who helped take it from its beginnings at Netscape into the non-profit organization that it is now. Her vision to maintain an independent browser has had an enormous impact on the establishment of universality in web protocols and has been crucial in warding off corporate enclosure that would have resulted in a far different web than the one we have now. (I can’t find it just now - but there is a video of an excellent talk online that she gave at a developers conference recently detailing some of this history).
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Not yet. Soon.
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Should it crash, it will be for reasons other than that it silenced the neo-fascist wing of the Republic Party.
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Weirdly, Pinterest has been one of the most proactive Big Tech C-listers in terms of trying to combat misinformation. They’ve been tackling antivax propaganda better than any other corporate social media space for a long time now.
I just wish they’d quit polluting image search with their several dozen TLDs.
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You know, I was definitely born with my religion. 
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My favorite is Pinterest. I like to think that Trump pinned ideas on decluttering his office or how one can flatten one’s belly in 14 days.
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and some people are born again with their religion.
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And some people are in a big hurry to lose theirs.
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Inciting violence and insurrection is not protected speech. Look it up.
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They game the refs. It’s a conscious strategy to get what they want. If your side is consistently breaking the rules (or in the case of, say, 501©4s, the law), complain that the moderators / judges / IRS are enforcing more on your side than the other side. Folks will notice that the enforcement action is more commonly taken against your side and assume bias, so the enforcers will start being more lenient to your side.
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GOP strategy since the late 80’s. If the news isn’t flattering for you, claim the news reporting is biased. It’s worked well for them for the last 30 years.
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Heh, wish this was real.
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They are all over on gab.com
The fake news media can’t ban me! I’ve groomed an entire batch of leopards who will eat their faces if they do!
Wait…no, get down kitty this is my face…ARRRGGGGH!
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And, to be clear, Hawley’s “client” here is the cause of fascism in America that he wishes to lead. He’ll never admit it, but there is no doubt about it.
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It’s only censorship if le Gouvernement does it, otherwise it’s merely sparkling corporate free speech.
Bindun?
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Well there went my weekend plan to watch the President play Grand Theft Election on Twitch.
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