Greetings. Let's cut to the chase. The freewheeling "anything goes"
days of social media and the Internet more broadly are ending.
Government regulations, mandated moderation and other topic and
content controls, ID and age requirements for access, and a whole
range of other changes are coming that will utterly alter the Internet
in most ways related not only to social media but to many other
aspects of Internet usage. Inevitably, the move toward a Communist
Chinese government-controlled Internet model will proceed.
This will take time. It won't happen overnight. The focus will be on
large firms first, but will gradually move down in scale to affect
everybody, everywhere. Attempts by some ecosystems to evade these
requirements via federated and other distributed models will
ultimately be unsuccessful.
As with the fall of Rome, this will be a process, not an event. But
despite the uncertainty of the details and the lack of an exact
timeline of events, the process itself seems quite certain indeed, and
that's the Internet we will be facing in the not so distant future --
like it or not. -L
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
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