Ecologia Digital<p>"Protecting <a href="https://mato.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> from threats created by Internet <a href="https://mato.social/tags/platforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>platforms</span></a> is a laudable goal. But it is not worth the cost imposed by legislative attempts so far: empowering the government to control legal speech online. Lawmakers’ attempts to impose their own top-down speech rules are particularly unwarranted given the far more promising possibilities offered by <a href="https://mato.social/tags/usercontrolled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usercontrolled</span></a> and <a href="https://mato.social/tags/decentralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decentralized</span></a> <a href="https://mato.social/tags/contentmoderation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contentmoderation</span></a> systems."</p><p><a href="https://techpolicy.press/regulated-democracy-and-regulated-speech" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techpolicy.press/regulated-dem</span><span class="invisible">ocracy-and-regulated-speech</span></a></p>