In the banking world you can get too big to fail.
I wonder if in the social media world you can get too big to allow censorship?
I wonder if in the social media world you can get too big to allow censorship?
It's clear that even though the Net is owned by private interests it 'feels' like a public space.
The Net felt like a public space long before advertising existed on the Net.
It is still also true though that people have an illusion of ownership over their emails in their Gmail accounts. That's why I switched away from them.
I think there does exist a role for truly public entities on the Net e.g. Estonia's attempts but I also don't believe a normal government is capable of providing these.
Can you take seriously an entity that can be swayed by Momsnet?
That's like running US chamber of commerce proposals past 4chan.