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I suspect trying to apply industrial-era antitrust and common carrier ideas to internet tech will break the idea of a liberal democracy. The “public utility” endgame only makes sense in an illiberal nondemocracy like China, and even then requires extreme cultural homogeneity.
This is one of my opinions that people suspect is insincere tech shilling but really is not. I just don’t think antitrust logic works at all on distribution aggregation. It works in production and buying (monopoly, monopsony) because of rivalrous physical goods.
The reduction ad absurdum is really absurdum. Attention in a way is created by whoever commands it. The macro is limited at 18h/day * 7.5b, but that’s potential, not actual. If all media magically shuts down, local conversation claims it all.
It’s simpler to see when the attention-pool creator is an individual rather than a platform. Remember when people were arguing Trump shouldn’t be allowed to block people from reading his tweets because freedom of information around public statements? What happened there btw?
I agree, I don't want Facebook or Twitter considered a public good, that's how you end up with laws requiring their use Make Facebook a utility and get ready to have an account assigned along with your SSN
I think we need new models for designing game-rules for winner-take-most markets. Who's doing that thinking well? I had a list 15yrs ago, but those folks don't seem current...
Dude stop tweeting and just make a Mastodon server account already. The solutions are right there.
I... Think he did, a while ago
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