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by ddxxdd 528 days ago
By all means, feel free to fact check our textbooks, news broadcasts, and statements from official sources.

But when I log on to social media to rant about how UFOs are time-traveling humans, I don't want a teal-colored, official-looking div element to alert the world that the online version of my personal expression is objectively wrong.

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The problem is that someone can say "they are eating the cats, they are eating the dogs" and that turns into hate and violence in the real world. They are not separate spaces, both the physical and the digital are part of the same world

So where does the line get drawn? Many believe that American style free speech goes too far and enables the malicious freedom to manipulate

Also, online platforms are currently anti-competitive, so when you don't agree with the provider, there are significant costs to choosing another. That's why efforts like ATProto & ActivityPub are important to the next generation of social media applications.