Meta Suspended a Protest Account for an Hour. That's the Whole Problem.
The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn't Rent Your Megaphone from Zuck
When Instagram briefly locked out the No Kings organizers mid-protest, supporters cried censorship. Techdirt's Mike Masnick argues the intent doesn't matter: an hour-long outage on a centralized platform is the real indictment. He walks through why Meta's automated moderation fails at scale, why demanding Zuckerberg "be better" just hands him more power, and why open protocols like atproto and ActivityPub are the durable fix.
Our own consciousness cannot be rented from others, or temporarily conceded to us, with built-in police or backdoors or hidden ad men.