THE DEPLATFORMING WILL GET WORSE, REGARDLESS IF TRUMP WINS OR LOSES!
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When this election is over and Trump wins, we cannot rely on Republicans to fix 230. It's very important it be FIXED and not repealed, as 230 is what allows any small internet startup to come into existence without having to worry about having itself sued into oblivion.
When Trump wins, we as conservatives have four years to build our own tech platforms. Remember that before Facebook there was MySpace and before MySpace there was Friendster. There is always room for someone to do it better.
I've been working on something, progress is slow, but coming along. Others need to rise up as well. People need to figure out what makes social media work and make that aspect work better to take on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and the like.
I remember the internet before the big three we had today. You had forums about every topic imaginable online. Now you have subreddits and Facebook groups. It's time to make forums great again!
Well, not to be a doomer, but we already had four years, the shenanigans started long ago. At the very latest when Alex Jones got banned from all platforms simultaneously, this was the last call to action. And some people did try to build alternatives, Gab, Parler - all facing the same problems, deplatforming goes way deeper than just banning an account. As soon as credit card companies and banks pressure hosting services, they simply kick you off their servers. You'd really need to build a whole new internet, basically. Dunno if that's feasible.
Right now, it doesn't look good. Gab is almost forgotten, and Parler is a walled-off echo chamber. Both consequences of above mentioned social/financial warfare. Maybe you will have more success, but as soon as something is big enough to attract a large enough free-speech audience, the left will try to shut it down for "hate speech". Seems we need to win the cultural battle first. Until then, we just build up new targets for them to take down without much effort.
Not trying to dissuade you, just warning about what to look out for.
Thanks, it is is an interesting problem. I don't know that what Gab has done is the way to go precisely due to the issues they have faced. There's got to be some middle ground between "allow everything" and "silence everything from one side".
I have some thoughts on how to build something that skirts this line. It would allow more speech by far than what Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc currently allow but would not allow everything. The key would be equal application of the rules and transparency, including transparent moderator logs. The goal would be to keep the platform from going too far either right or left and allow all voices and ideas to compete on merit, while stopping any harassment or attacks at a personal, rather than an ideological level.