Social Media First Amendment Cases

• freenet-core

  78 2,022 9.7 Rust

  Declare your digital independence

  

> They’re about politicians ensuring that a favored constituency has access to someone else’s megaphone to spread a message

I think this is an inaccurate characterization. People were encouraged to use and invest in building an audience on these platforms based on the tacit understanding that they would behave like content neutral common carriers.

People created their own "megaphones" often over many years only for the platform to start dictating to them how they can communicate with the audiences they've built, often based on naked political partisanship. It was a bait and switch.

That said, having listened to most of the oral arguments I think SCOTUS will strike down these laws.

The fundamental problem is that the Internet centralizes power in a small number of corporations that then become ripe for ideological capture, which is exactly what has happened. The ultimate solution is a decentralized Internet like https://freenet.org/ that doesn't require people hand over control of their own voices to powerful third parties.

• plugin-WebOfTrust

  4 54 6.9 Java

  Collaborative spam filter for Freenet. Short overview: https://goo.gl/ZR3zg5 Whitepaper: https://git.io/vXtHN Suppor contact & maintainer: @xor-freenet

  

There's definitely a slippery slope when you start with centralized moderation, which seems to be the article's central argument.

With the new Freenet, we're using a decentralized moderation system that lets users control what they see or don't see, based on sensible defaults. This builds on a concept from the original Freenet called web-of-trust[1]. I believe this method, combined with the fact that centralized censorship is impossible in the new Freenet due to its lack of centralized control, offers a strong alternative.

[1] https://github.com/hyphanet/plugin-WebOfTrust/blob/master/de...

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