"Protecting #democracy from threats created by Internet #platforms is a laudable goal. But it is not worth the cost imposed by legislative attempts so far: empowering the government to control legal speech online. Lawmakers’ attempts to impose their own top-down speech rules are particularly unwarranted given the far more promising possibilities offered by #usercontrolled and #decentralized #contentmoderation systems."
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Tech Policy Press · Regulated Democracy and Regulated Speech | TechPolicy.PressThe First Amendment is meant to protect us from short-sightedness about state power, writes Daphne Keller.
