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metaviv I'd argue while they monopolize governing, well formed systems spend a lot of time and effort diluting themselves both for better and for worse. Not all democracies choose to delegate police control down to municipalities like the US does and we end up seeing good and bad thereOn twitter.com
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metaviv And at the end of the day, democracies eventually come down to power to citizens...Permalink On twitter.com
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metaviv The US population clearly doesn't exercise this as much as it should, but even with all its many problems people could (and arguably right now have) disrupted the government to a degree that would be impossible to do on Facebook to Facebook.Permalink On twitter.com
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metaviv And on the internet so much has been built and proven out through community and decentralized management. Basic structures of the web assume and depend on decentralization. Our standards are built by communities with different interests and requirements.Permalink On twitter.com
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metaviv What would HTML look like if it had been built and maintained by a singular commercial entity like Facebook? What would the internet? IMO there's a reason that most internet communities fracture, and those that don't mostly fester like 4chanPermalink On twitter.com
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metaviv The exception being Reddit I guess, but there the resilience, I think, has come out of being a loose collection of communities not strongly held. It can enact light governance while still avoiding monopolies of algorithms, ideas, or money. Though there are failures there too.Permalink On twitter.com
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metaviv Monopolies are dangerous to freedom and to safety. Arguably the relaxing of US monopoly laws have done a great deal to bring us to the problems we face today in Facebook, and elsewhere.Permalink On twitter.com
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