Making the Internet Safe for Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6288692 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francis Fukuyama (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 37-44 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of democracy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jod.2021.0017 |
| OpenAlex | W3152953507 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
The power of large internet platforms to amplify or silence certain voices at a scale that can alter major political outcomes poses a grave threat to democracy. Approaches to reducing this power have thus far fallen into four main categories: 1) using antitrust legislation to break up companies such as Facebook and Google; 2) government regulation of content; 3) data portability, or empowering users to move their data between platforms; and 4) applying privacy legislation to limit how platforms can use the data they collect. Yet each of these four approaches is inadequate in its own way. A more promising solution lies in using both technology and regulation to outsource content curation from the dominant platforms to a competitive layer of "middleware companies
Business · Computer security · Democracy · Government (linguistics · Internet privacy · Legislation · Outsourcing · Panopticon · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Silence · Software portability · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Copyright and Intellectual Property · Law · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Marketing
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |