"That is kind of terrifying," he suggests.Ĭapsule would seek to route around the risk of mass deplatforming via "easy to deploy" P2P microservices - starting with a forthcoming web app. court seeking damages and injunctive relief from Apple for allowing Telegram, a messaging platform with 500 million+ users, to be made available through its iOS App Store - "despite Apple's knowledge that Telegram is being used to intimidate, threaten and coerce members of the public" - raising concerns about "the odds of these efforts catching on." He also points to a lawsuit that's been filed in U.S. But he says he is concerned about giant private corporations having unilateral power to shape internet speech - whether takedown decisions are being made by Twitter's trust and safety lead or Amazon Web Services (which recently yanked the plug on right-wing social network Parler for failing to moderate violent views). Kobeissi also takes that view, while adding the caveat that he's not "personally" concerned about Trump's deplatforming. President Donald Trump's access to their megaphones - a demonstration of private power that other political leaders have described as problematic. Interest in the space has been rekindled in recent weeks after mainstream platforms like Facebook and Twitter took decisions to shut down U.S. Extant examples include ActivityPub, Diaspora, Mastodon, P2P Matrix, Scuttlebutt, Solid and Urbit, to name a few. The list of decentralized/P2P/federated protocols and standards already out there is very long - even while usage remains low. Capsule is just the latest contender for retooling Internet power structures by building infrastructure that radically decentralizes social platforms to make speech more resilient to corporate censorship and control.
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