The social media inflection point
Greetings. I'll add one more brief thought to my endless treatises on
where I think the Internet is going. Essentially, I believe we're
already past the inflection point of "social media" as we've known it,
and we'll be riding down the curve from this point onward.
The confluence of state and federally-mandated content requirements,
moderation requirements, ID requirements, and a range of other
restrictions that *will* come eventually (perhaps sooner rather than
later), will mean the days of anonymous social media partying will be
drawing to a close.
Social media will no doubt continue to exist in some form -- and some
distributed/federated ecosystems will attempt (ultimately
unsuccessfully) to hold off these changes -- but on a bipartisan basis
politicians are closing in on agreements for how to tightly regulate
the Internet and its users. It's just a matter of time.
To pretend that this isn't happening is a fallacy, and my
recommendation is that we try to figure out the best ways to move
forward in an environment that will be changed enormously, trying to
preserve via compromise the best that we can, and to improve on the
status quo wherever possible. -L
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
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