Tuesday 20 July 2021

Public Places of the Internet v.07

If only there's a Public Place of the Internet that is not owned by companies, people could go there and hang out and do various activities together. Their terms and conditions should be universal as well. 

People who go there could have general expectations of what kind of customs should apply as well as what information would be exchanged in public places, and they would be right.

Currently the internet is a public place thank God, only its like a huge piece of land, it has no park, no public venues, no roads, no bridges, everything's private. Free market is great, however this free market is monopolistic with little alternatives. Yes yes, I'm not against free market its because of the anti-competitive practices and law, points arguable, but lets not go there (the considerations are heavy and would segway the topic). The reality is, there's little alternatives to google and facebook. Twitch and tik tok, crunchyroll maybe, but even so its still too few. 

Instead of private social medias, we should have open source social medias that have a universal terms and conditions and privacy policy, an open venue where people could open up different kinds of stalls of social applications there. 

To finance the venue the social medias could implement the golden sticker system