Ed Coper

And so if you withdraw from social media, it will be good for you personally.

It will not fix the system where everyone else is still getting their diet of information from places that should not be our town square.

It has to be part of it.

It's not all of it, but it has to be part of it.

The crisis we are in exists because there are rewards, monetary and other, for people who make a certain type of content.

And the platforms need to take away those rewards.

replace those rewards for things that encourage consensus, positive emotions, policy reform that actually helps, not hurts, things that bring us together, things that build bridges, right?

They choose what gets rewarded.

They choose what can be monetized.

They choose what will get enough engagement to be monetized.

And the very first thing they need to do is to take away the dog treat when the dog fouls your rug, right?

That the current system is giving a dog treat every time your dog fouls your rug.

They need to take away those rewards.

We have to abandon the notion that the internet and social media is currently an open libertarian marketplace of ideas.

It is not.

It is censorship through algorithmic amplification.

And that's what a lot of people don't see.

They see any government intervention to say, oh, that's going to tell us what we can and can't say.

Well, at the moment, we are censored because the algorithm decides, someone in Silicon Valley decides that you can only see a certain type of content.

That is a form of censorship.