Open Internet dying in front of our very eyes.
Let's not forget that social media are just one of the many scapegoats tried over the past decade in hopes of pushing this idea forwards. And while there's no denying that today's social media have gotten destructive, they're still only a scapegoat; no attempt is being made here to bring them back to their original, non-malicious shape.
Is the social media hate really so powerful that, channeled carefully, it can overshadow free speech?
In what universe are corpo-controlled walled-gardens considered "Open Internet"?
> no attempt is being made here to bring them back to their original, non-malicious shape.
Because it's impossible unless you ban for-profit social media. Naturally I'd support such a ban.
> no attempt is being made here to bring them back to their original, non-malicious shape.
Social networks can revert back to original form any minute, nobody’s stopping them.
> Is the social media hate really so powerful that, channeled carefully, it can overshadow free speech?
Bots giving platform to schizos and fringe radicals is a freedom of speech?
Has anyone ever argued that children should have full access to the entire internet?
Seems like a horribly bad idea.
Will adults be exempt from the invasive age verification?
Social media is not the open internet, pretty much by definition. With a few notable, niche exceptions it’s big centralised services entirely in the control of single companies.
They’ve long been explicitly targeting human psychology for profit, it’s hardly surprising there’s a backlash. But that doesn’t mean the open internet is dead. In fact the open internet could benefit from the slaying of these centralised monsters.