The argument in a nutshell: "Instead of focusing on what content should be removed or censored, we should instead focus on restoring the underlying social and technical structures that enabled free speech to function well in the past. A crucial part of that structure is freedom of attention (which I have previously referred to as freedom of impression, as a complement to freedom of expression). That is the ability of individuals and communities to choose what they listen to, rather than having platforms decide for them." An example of this problem is pervasive advertising, which Richard Reisman discusses in the second half of the post. "What is needed are trusted and prosocial intermediary attention agent services that we can independently select and combine for ourselves."
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