What if the government tells a social media site they have to ban people from criticizing them or they’ll lose funding?
Open source sure, that’s fine. But someone’s gotta pay for running the servers and if the government can cut that funding they have influence over it. That’s a level of government control over the media that’s a little concerning.
Better to have the the government make regulations requiring companies to make it easy to switch to another company. Like changing to another phone company, you can keep the same number (because of regulations) so people can still call you without even knowing you changed companies even if they have a phone from a different manufacturer using a different phone company.
You can do the same with things like social media, just need to have regulations requiring protocols to allow people to change services easily and connect with other services so there’s not a network effect making people stay on shit services because it’s what all their friends use. People should own their data, own their contacts and companies should compete by providing better services rather than by making it difficult to leave the services they’re currently on.
Handing over your date to the government isn’t a better solution than handing it over to a private company. The real solution is to ensure people own their data.
Newspapers predate the internet I’ve heard, and even European newspapers have online presence now. Why would any of that get worse with a more sovereign EU?
If you’re talking social media, then more control is required. This is pretty much the only reason the topic is even brought up at all. I’d much rather have our courts control speech than Nazis.
What if the government tells a social media site they have to ban people from criticizing them or they’ll lose funding?
Open source sure, that’s fine. But someone’s gotta pay for running the servers and if the government can cut that funding they have influence over it. That’s a level of government control over the media that’s a little concerning.
Better to have the the government make regulations requiring companies to make it easy to switch to another company. Like changing to another phone company, you can keep the same number (because of regulations) so people can still call you without even knowing you changed companies even if they have a phone from a different manufacturer using a different phone company.
You can do the same with things like social media, just need to have regulations requiring protocols to allow people to change services easily and connect with other services so there’s not a network effect making people stay on shit services because it’s what all their friends use. People should own their data, own their contacts and companies should compete by providing better services rather than by making it difficult to leave the services they’re currently on.
Handing over your date to the government isn’t a better solution than handing it over to a private company. The real solution is to ensure people own their data.
Newspapers predate the internet I’ve heard, and even European newspapers have online presence now. Why would any of that get worse with a more sovereign EU?
If you’re talking social media, then more control is required. This is pretty much the only reason the topic is even brought up at all. I’d much rather have our courts control speech than Nazis.