Comment on Brazil's Lula accuses social media giant Meta of election interference amid tight run-off campaign
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours agoI find it difficult to consider a politician in power who wants to exercise control over Internet speech in this way a good guy.
The solution to problems like this would be the fediverse, his campaign could run its own instance…
zeppo@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
He wants his posts to actually show up on Facebook? I don’t really see that as regulating internet speech. Meta has meddled in tons of elections and I think it’s fair to complain about.
Running his own instance would be about the equivalent of just making their own website or blog. The point of social media is the dissemination to the public, and just having a Lemmy/whatever instance doesn’t accomplish that.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
It’s definitely a difficult issue. We never should have allowed the Internet to become as centralized as it is now. 😕