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I doubt there'll be much boycotting; the people who might boycott won't want to use it in the first place. Certainly no regulation will be enacted. I doubt a smear campaign, either; if it's anything like Twitter, a simple screenshot of the homepage will be enough. So the only things are:

• licenses revoked – except with free software, this can only happen if you violate the license

• deplatformed by infrastructure providers – which is part of the reason we need not to have centralisation in the first place.

As much as I dislike this former president, I expect his social media site might actually have better moderation than his Twitter followers had; for PR reasons, if nothing else. I'd rather it wasn't around, but I don't think it's worth taking it down. (Enforcing the AGPL, however? That's worth something.)



> I expect his social media site might actually have better moderation than his Twitter followers had

They more or less already stated that any unflattering opinions will be deleted and the used banned from the platform.


> licenses revoked – except with free software, this can only happen if you violate the license

Eh, there _are_ commercial licenses which would have a "don't bring us into disrepute" clause, but you'd imagine they'll probably avoid those. Mind you you'd also imagine they'd avoid violating the AGPL, and yet here we are.


Sorry, I was grammatically ambiguous. Free software is the one where this can only happen if you violate the license, and it's an exception to “traditional” (proprietary) software licensing. Please read the “except” as a fancy “but”. (How dare you not pick up on my intonation‽ It was obvious in the timing of my keypresses!)


> I expect his social media site might actually have better moderation than his Twitter followers had; for PR reasons...

I expect that any and all voices that don't lavish heaps on praise upon The Former Guy to be removed without any further justification.

If that's what you mean by "moderation".


I think that certain classes of massive blatant bigotry will be forbidden. Perhaps not as well as Twitter, thinking about it, but still probably better than some of the other sites out there that are tailored to this demographic.

The ulterior motive of this website is simple: the immediate interests of this guy. The ulterior motives of some other websites are harder to see.




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