Social media platforms should really just be treated as religions and afforded the same protections. For-profit religions. I’m serious. This is the solution. Not treated as a public commons, or a common carrier.
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All the attention flows to a very small group of people anyway (Pastors / Rabbis).
The question is if social networks can get people to give them 10% of their income.
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Any system that produces speech or information over some baseline rate ought to choose whether it be recognized as utility or religion.





