The problem as usual is centralization on the Web. That’s what caused the VCs to fund Facebook and why it became this behemoth. (Peter Thiel thinks a monopoly is awesome.)
Take for example a law passed earlier this year which required networks to remove posts dealing with child trafficking. The EFF and many free speech advocates went ballistic:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/how-congress-censored-...
But what if we had open source software that any small community could use to run their own Facebook-like social network?
Look, Wordpress has been around for 15 year and people have figured out how to clean up their own blog spam. Communities like HN or a local village can easily police their own posts. Local communities are also able to know a local language and local customs and laws.
The problem is centralization.
from Hacker News - New Comments: "WordPress" http://bit.ly/2ETJGO3
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