[emilfihlman]

It's refreshing to see it said out loud today as an ideal, even if they didn't really believe it then nor today, the idea on page 24:

"But what happens when everyone can put their message in front of a lot of people? When the playing field is level? When everyone has a printing press, the ones with the best ideas are the ones people listen to, Influence can no longer be owned, It must be earned."

I wish people believe(d) in this still today, but we are in a jaded censorship world, and it seems that those who believe in it are labeled extremists.

[sneak]

They should have known that if they built a giant centralized platform, the government would eventually come knocking.

[dredmorbius]

s/government/governments/

Also corporations, political parties, propagandists, hucksters, and others.

Pathogens co-evolve with their hosts.

[sneak]

There’s only one government that Facebook/Meta really has to obey, and that’s the one that can show up at Zucc’s houses with the CIA. The other ones are mostly optional.

[dredmorbius]

Localised bans are possible. Those threaten not only present userbase and revenue, but open up niches for alternatives favoured by that logal regime to become established.

Weibo would be a prime example of that last dynamic, in China.

[lupire]

Then they immediately turned around and started charging money to show your post to your friends. Lies piled up on lies.