Graham Smith published a summary of 5 years worth of analysis and opposition to the UK Online Harms and Online Safety bills, it’s an excellent forecast of where content moderation law is going - https://twitter.com/cyberleagle/status/1644727825423900672?s=46&t=7HZmj4Bl9okqLmN3QbBvkw

Law and policy for interesting ideas.  Worked at Google and Discord.  Co-founded MobileCoin. 

There’s a prevailing opinion of “we’re decentralized therefore there laws don’t apply”, which is incorrect on several axes: 

From a practical standpoint, if you have an office, a bank account, employees paid salaries, and an AWS bill then you are subject to regulation.

The more interesting design standpoint is that these laws (which IMO are bad and misguided) a attempt to regulate negative behavior, and that same behavior will appear on web3 socials and it will need to be addressed somehow.

I’m going to spend some time this month noodling on “how can web3 socials encourage the full range of human expression, including things we dislike, without devolving to 4chan?”  It’s a very interesting problem.

One of my motivations for joining Farcaster and PurpleDAO is to work on these sorts of issues as applied to web3 services.