The most incredible aspect of the internet is that no one person or organization controls it: the people make it what it is every day. That ideal is constantly under threat, especially today. We commit as a company to fighting for an #OpenInternet.
The power of the internet is only as good as the power it gives to individual people. The more we do to advance that, the stronger it becomes. This underlies all else. But there are two emergent and growing threats.
The first is a number of large organizations effectively building walled-garden alternative internets, sustained by favorable regulation, and thus killing competing ideas and organizations that could be better for society.
The second is for the outcomes of content moderation to be a reductive and binary “leave up” or “take down.” This distracts from a more important focus on amplification, reach, and connecting disparate information to provide richer context.
Ensuring competition on a level playing field for all on the internet, and truly understanding the fundamental dynamics that underlie internet speech, will strengthen what the internet can be for everyone around the world.
Finally, we aren’t just advocating for an open internet, we’re doing our part to make it more open. Putting our resources behind an open and decentralized standard for social media, @bluesky:
