That sort of locks in the big players, though, right? If you aren’t making Facebook money, how are you going to afford the liability? What happens to a Lemmy or Mastodon instance with a budget of $2500/yr if the operators suddenly become legally liable for what people say on them? What if they are legally liable for what someone in another instance says which then gets federated?
Yep, this. I think the marks are told “Big Tech” ( which they imagine are being run by liberals) that they are doing something very liberal and must be punished, because something something Hunter’s hard drive, oops, I mean “lap top”.
I think the reality will be that, yes, all the people running siren servers will consolidate yet even more power and the Internet as a two-way medium is effectively over.
That sort of locks in the big players, though, right? If you aren’t making Facebook money, how are you going to afford the liability? What happens to a Lemmy or Mastodon instance with a budget of $2500/yr if the operators suddenly become legally liable for what people say on them? What if they are legally liable for what someone in another instance says which then gets federated?
Yep, this. I think the marks are told “Big Tech” ( which they imagine are being run by liberals) that they are doing something very liberal and must be punished, because something something Hunter’s hard drive, oops, I mean “lap top”.
I think the reality will be that, yes, all the people running siren servers will consolidate yet even more power and the Internet as a two-way medium is effectively over.