Playing out the game tree here, it will be made de facto illegal for individuals to own domain names/web sites, and you will be allowed to write only on corporate sites subject to tight safe-speech regulation. Not a prediction, but a possibility.https://twitter.com/bigleaguepol/status/1121822256353751041 …
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I think it's significant that it's not the government wanting to punish here, but the corporation and whoever they're trying to please. That may affect what measures censors are able to employ. In some ways it makes them more powerful b/c not answerable to the limits on govt.
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Huge political pressure on USG now to regulate FB & Twitter. Fwiw looks to me like highly probable. FB apparently wants this specifically in order to close smaller competitors and force everything onto FB who cam bear the moderation cost.
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I was trying to argue with this but realized that computer manufacturing is centralized enough that governments enforcing iOS style walled gardens on all computers is feasible.
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So I guess the only hope is that there never will be enough political will to censor one to one communication which would be enough to keep something like the Freenet Project going.
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