| The current placement of our legal mores vis-a-vis a post Social Media world is incongruous. It is a crying shame, that we don’t have MORE information, given that everything is on a data base. If we want to have the least intrusive moderation, we want to actually change minds, and have an actual working “marketplace of ideas”, you need this information. The concern about a bad actor who decides to impose “transparency” is fatuous - they are going to do it anyway, and they are going to do it exactly the manner you are concerned - with an eye to stifle freedoms. The point of free speech, is not served by preventing transparency. A market overwhelmed by manipulations, virulence, spam, monopolies - isn’t a working market place. Transparency will help with figuring out what interventions work, and how effectively. It would be a way to figure out whether social media is a boon or a bane. Thats the kind of estimation that ends malign arguments hiding behind an unbounded, flexible definition of free speech. |