• Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Thanks for the suggestion on the quote.

    Are you suggesting their should be a publicly owned social media instead? I don’t quite see people being very happy about all privately owned social medias being banned working out well in the US.

    I think what we do agree with is that currently, social medias are too influential with little oversight. Just seems like you feel that there isn’t enough oversight over a private company to ever fix the issue.

    • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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      6 months ago

      Not at all - I think social media should follow an atomized federation model, as in lemmy, mastodon, ect. Distributed networks are far more robust against outside influence.

      What I definitely don’t want is for-profit private social media that is a completely proprietary black box - that enables both private and governmental influence without the knowledge of the users. The US banning tiktok basically just confirms (or adds to the suspicion) that the US govt has a comfortable amount of control over domestic social media, and is uncomfortable with foreign companies that are outside of their influence.

      I suspect the ire at tiktok has a lot to do with the trend of increasingly left-leaning content on the platform - content that they have no ability to suppress.