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date: '2020-02-22'
title: 'Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech'
description: "After a decade or so of the general sentiment being in favor of the internet and social media as a way to enable more speech and improve the marketplace of ideas, in the last few years the view has shifted dramatically—now it seems that almost no one is happy."
tags: ['politics', 'social media']
---

**[Mike Masnick:](https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech)**

> After a decade or so of the general sentiment being in favor of the internet and social media as a way to enable more speech and improve the marketplace of ideas, in the last few years the view has shifted dramatically—now it seems that almost no one is happy.<!-- excerpt -->
