diff --git a/proposal.yaml b/proposal.yaml index afb9f9e..be3589d 100644 --- a/proposal.yaml +++ b/proposal.yaml @@ -31,13 +31,13 @@ Description: | possible - leading to the promotion of the most inciting content. Having captured users and advertisers, social media platforms are enshittified to extract more money for shareholders. Sometimes those - same shareholders have a weakness for antisemitic conspiracy - theories and decide to stop moderating any content on the platform: - with the sad but unsurprising result of more racist, sexist, xeno-, - homo- and transphobic, and other dehumanizing content. Nevertheless, - a lot of public political discourse is (still) happening on those - same social media platforms - which is then immediately manipulated - by political adversaries to serve their needs. + same shareholders decide to stop moderating content on the platform + because of a misguided understanding of "free speech": with the sad + but unsurprising result of more racist, sexist, xeno-, homo- and + transphobic, and other dehumanizing content. Nevertheless, a lot of + public political discourse is (still) happening on those same social + media platforms - which is then immediately manipulated by political + adversaries to serve their needs. Can we imagine a less harmful form of social media? If yes, how would it look like? And what role does free software play in this