Proposal Before the Congress To Restore Freedom of Speech
7. Whereas the malincentives of the advertising businesses conflict with the public interest: The organizations shall separate the advertising and revenue-generating businesses from the platform businesses of Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Youtube, and prohibit advertising interests from interfering with necessary communication, discovery, trade, and settlement of payments, and add regulatory members to the boards of the platform businesses. (Note that none of these companies uses difficult technology, but the network effect of their monopolies is can’t be overcome by the market. Therefore the government can, through IBM or other entity, create an independent semi-private non-profit company and a single national platform providing all of these services free of advertising and cost, just as with any other communications, power, water, gas, or road, infrastructure. And that doing so would be in the strategic national interest, especially if combined with an education platform (see Canvas) at all levels including the college and university, which would drastically cut costs and allow the very best teachers and professors access to the entire country at almost no cost..)
8. Whereas every communication and collaboration platform is capable of using extant user profile data, extant statistical user profile data, and additional voluntary user profile data, to insulate individuals and voluntary relations between individuals, from involuntary relations between individuals with different profile properties (“positive and negative interests”). Every platform is capable of presenting users with advertising, and user-generated content according to these profile data, and the user’s positive and negative interests. Every platform is capable of maintaining voluntary self-publishing to a profile, voluntarily communication between voluntarily associated members. And as such the only justification for not implementing these features is to intentionally control the content of public discourse, for nefarious purposes, whether by the platform organization, their advertisers, or other entities with equal nefarious incentives. Therefore voluntarily established communication may not be interfered with in any way by the platform. The platform has only the right and obligation to remove content consisting of (a) explicit pornography, (b) any hint or semblance of or inference of child pornography or pedophilia. (c) suicides (d) gruesome violence, (e) unambiguously sincere threats of, or evidence of, immediate and specific violent crime, and these may be hidden by the ordinary vote of users – who do not abuse, by false reporting, the vote.
10. The Restoration of the Common Law Prohibition of Legislation from the Bench in all courts, that has deprived the Legislatures and the People of opportunity, right, and responsibility for self-determination by self-determined means, and thereby creating incentives necessary for the failure of democratic processes.
10. The Restoration of the Common Law right of voluntary disassociation outside of commerce; and restoration of that commerce and commerce alone is the limit of the government’s regulatory power under the Commerce Clause.