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Stop Killing the Internet: Governments are walling off the open internet. We are a global movement opposing restrictions — and building a better internet. (www.stopkillingtheinternet.com)

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And then we barrel towards regulatory capture, as the very biggest corporations can just lobby to their benefit.

The page touches on this:

When the YouTuber who exposed predators on Roblox brought them to light, the response was not to go after the predators, but to go after him.

We know these problems. If a YouTuber can find them, why can’t a company with billions of dollars, armies of engineers, and full control over their platform?

So I think govt should go after the most manipulative corporate offenders, but not create a situation where they can have so much control over individuals. In other words, no one should have that kind of manipulative power, and its the govt's role to break it up wherever it pops up, not take control of it.

[–] MortUS@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I mean, some entity has to control it.

Even if we reign in Corporations, there's still external governments trying to stir trouble and influence the popular opinion. We can't realistically stop them from doing this, but have to defend against it. So some entity has to be in charge of that.

I think you're right though, we have to reign in Corporations first. If each Nation cannot do that, then there's not much difference between Government and Corporate Interests. This is a problem that isn't going to go away even after we fix it either - something we'll have to figure out as a society how to handle.