alt Hacker NewsThese are private websites accessible over the public internet, to be clear. Also, there are known relationships between the intelligence community and the big platforms, lets not pretend they have free reign.
Should/do we allow foreign propaganda radio stations? If we accept that the government can (and very much does) impose itself on content platforms for "national security", what exactly is the difference between deliberately insidious information warfare, and collateral damage from market incentives?
I agree that its better to find solutions that involve protections instead of restrictions though. I think it means forced decoupling of indices/curation from advertising. This would make advertising funded addiction feeds compete with paid feed applications.
> Should/do we allow foreign propaganda radio stations?
How do you define this? Is it foreign owned? Noncitizens are not guaranteed the same rights, especially citizens of hostile foreign powers.
> If we accept that the government can (and very much does) impose itself on content platforms for "national security"
Why should we accept this?
> what exactly is the difference between deliberately insidious information warfare, and collateral damage from market incentives?
None, both are concepts not found in the Constitution (if you’re talking about domestic speech by citizens) and both are protected by 1A.
I don’t care in the slightest about your fearmongering national security nonsense.