Thread by @EricRWeinstein

1/ Why I no longer see tech platforms as simply private companies.

Let me begin w/ a definition.

A Public Web Forum is a platform reachable without any private/corporate provider being traversed in the process. Then a forum is *meaningfully private* if & only if PWFs exist.

2/ I’m then not aware of any place on the web to discuss matters which is meaningfully private under this rubric. I seem to need an ISP to get on the web and the tech platforms are corporate. There is no analog of a public street leading to a public square. It’s all nonpublic.

3/ I also define a web forum to be American (or British or Indian...) if it does NOT inherit legal issues from other nations in which one has no vote or say that violate its founding documents. That is ANY platform paying attention to Pakistani blasphemy laws is NOT American.

4/ Conjecture 1: there are no *meaningfully private* web forums

Conjecture 2: There are no American web forums.

Let that sink in.

End/ Assuming this is right, I call either for creation of the first meaningfully private American Web Forums in advance of the 2020 election via the creation of at least one High Quality American Public Web Forum or, in an emergency, the use of law to appropriate such space.🙏