That's gay bullshit. You want the government to take credit for and tax us for the freedom we only obtained through our own hard work? You want people who don't give a shit about freedom to not only mooch off of us, but hate us for slightly inconveniencing them in their shallow, irresponsible hedonism? Is the thought of people just growing a spine and leaving an abusive platform so terrifying that you would rather put enormous effort into plugging up every new and creative way that shitty organization can come up with to continue being shitty?
I believe we need some fundamental rights on any social media platform or protocol we use.
The rights are:
1. Privacy & Security
2. Ownership
3. Interoperability
4. Algorithmic Control
5. Self-Governance
I’ve created a little website to campaign for these rights at https://rights.social.
Discussion
Where did i say we should bend the knee and ask governments for these rights? Or choose to use some platform that users themselves don’t control?
I don't interpret you as saying we should choose platforms without user control. I interpreted you as trying to coerce existing platforms with tyrannical owners into giving up some of their control to their users. It sounds to me like the idea of people growing a spine and leaving these platforms is so upsetting to you that you would rather put enormous effort into plugging up every new and creative way that these shitty platforms can come up with to continue screwing over theur users. Is any of this accurate?
When you said that we should "campaign" for these rights I got the strong impression that you meant that you believed governments should be involved. I suppose it's possible that someone could "campaign" for a private actor to do something, and it's possible that you don't see the same danger I see in asking the government for anything, but that's not the impression I got. The impression I got is that you want the government to "create" rights for us. My impression is that you have a very low view of individual choice as a force for solving problems and improving society, and my impression is that you don't particularly care about how dangerous petitioning the government might be, nor do you particularly mind or disagree with the narrative that we would have only succeeded because of government intervention. Is any of my intuition wrong? How would you phrase your position?
By the way, my web browser is broken on this device so I haven't been able tk visit your website.