Thread · 2 tweets · 24 Nov 2019

The Internet is a force for good, and increasing awareness of suffering is not why it is in a bad place. The Internet is in a bad place because decades of astoundingly bad policy have created companies of such stupendous scale that no one no matter how smart can make them safe.

Fix the policies. Break up Google. Break up Facebook and Amazon. Enjoy a return to innovation, to responsibility, to caring about users, to scale that doesn't corrupt absolutely. I'm old enough to remember when this was fun.