Comment by Ethan Zuckerman

MIT scholar and public-interest technologist
This work is technically possible, but it requires a very different regulatory environment than the one we currently have, one that mandates interoperability and protects adversarial interoperability, the ability to build a product that announces “I’m going to be compatible with you whether you like it or not.” The ecosystem my friends and I are building includes both large and small social networks. I don’t just want you to have control over Smalltown — I want to give you control over Facebook, as well, using the tools you choose to determine what content you see. AI Unverifiable source (2022)
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AI Unverifiable Source URL (ethanzuckerman.com 'Governance, not Moderation' 2022 talk) returns HTTP 403 from WebFetch. Web search confirms this 2022 talk by Ethan Zuckerman exists with this content: he advocates for a regulatory environment mandating interoperability and protecting 'adversarial interoperability' (compatibility 'whether you like it or not'), and references his Smalltown ecosystem and giving users control over Facebook. Vote (For 'Grant developers the right to interoperate with large platforms without permission') aligns precisely. Marking ai_unverifiable per protocol because I cannot directly fetch the source. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 10d ago
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