Technology

nationalize

cooperatives

make up your mind

Holy fuck the death of free speech. Do u hear urself. Ur on lemmy literally designed to be impossible to do such a thing.

nationalize social media

Okay buddy, what about the social media that's literally just servers running in some hobbiest's basement?

Transitioning companies into co-ops would be a better solution as it gets rid of the worst of capitalism while leaving as much of the existing infrastructure as humanely possible.

Basically just send middle management and up packing.

Oh yes, let's nationalize the communications platforms and give the government direct control over how people express themselves. Surely the government is 100% trustworthy and will not use that power to suppress criticism or political opponents, or track people who are 'unpatriotic', or redefine 'hate speech' in a way that benefits the current regime. No such thing has ever happened in the history of ever. What could possibly go wrong.

What you propose is simple (as in simplistic), but far from easy. Content moderation at scale is extremely difficult, if not impossible. See "Masnick's Impossibility Theorem."

Also, deplatforming bigots is difficult and ineffective:

• https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/Papers/vu2023no.pdf
• https://www.theregreview.org/2023/11/09/mcdonald-the-limits-of-deplatforming/ (bonus link/spoiler alert: it's a monopoly issue https://www.theregreview.org/2024/01/16/englebert-a-role-for-antitrust-in-online-content-moderation/)

Yes the same heavy moderation that worked wonders for curtailing the rise of hate speech online over the last decade. It did not at all just incentivized the hate mongers to simply build their own platforms and audiences were they cannot be fact checked by anyone sane.

Let people spout and indulge in all the hate speech they want, instead have social mechanisms to dissuade from it. You know, like the real fucking world. The downvotes on reddit are such a simple mechanism that works at a level similar to how social feedback leads to self censorship people do in the real world.

Also fuck outta here with fact checking bs. You don’t hear more disinformation than the kind that gets repeated in barbershops daily, even before the internet and no one ever thought you had to fact check the shit Tony is saying this week. You just learned to take everything with a grain of salt.