rabble on Nostr: The CEO of Signal, Meredith Whittaker has a great essay about why the US push to ban ...
The CEO of Signal,
Meredith Whittaker (npub15s3…6r6y) has a great essay about why the US push to ban or force a sale of TikTok is a terrible idea.
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On the TikTok ban, the danger of abandoning defense of speech to extremists, & how the liberal tendency to assume a just state "outside the scope of this paper" leads to confused law/policy that can exacerbate the problems platforms pose.
https://lpeproject.org/blog/social-media-authoritarianism-and-the-world-as-it-is/
It’s worth reading. She says that people on the political left need to realize there are major free speech issues with social media platforms. This shouldn’t be a left right divide.
She says “The problem here is the platforms themselves. There is something deeply wrong with the whole form. With their self-reinforcing business models, their reliance on surveillance, and their role in undermining an independent media ecosystem and replacing it with their monolithic feeds.”
Which I think all of us working on Nostr would agree with.
She concludes with “The world would be better if these platforms were dismantled and their revenues shared with the people, professions, and communities whose livelihoods and public spaces they’ve worked to foreclose, and if a more localized variation on digital spaces for deliberation, discussion, and discovery could be constructed in their wake.”
Now Signal is open source, but has rejected the idea of federating their servers as it would slow down platform development and endanger user privacy. So in some ways she’s running a platform.
As a committed leftist i’m very uncomfortable with the way some of my fellow travelers aren’t defending free speech online.
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