You are going to block this site. This will do the following:
- You will no longer see this site in searches.
- Site will no longer see your site in searches.
- Site will not be able to comment on your site profile.
- Any comments this site has posted to your profile will not be displayed.
Are you sure you want to do this?
"own communities and own search engines with our own content" Won't they be valuable only for their inhabitants. I've seen old forums with strong community where original content was defeated by discussions about community itself. Less audience, less content, less newcomers, less feedback.
If you post on a forum, you don't own your content; the forum mods do. It's functionally no different than Facebook, except the censorship is cause mods woke up on the wrong side of the bed today instead of conspiring with Merkel and Hillary for voters.
My comment wasn't about regulation at all but rather about self-regulation - if people doesn't feel that they'll be heard, they're silent. Also isn't this "good web" infrastructure going to be controlled by people (which aren't ideal and have the same vices)?
That's why it'll be the "internet" of the 1%, for the people who have something to say, and must scream, even at the void. Most people won't know or care to do it, and they can stay on Instagram to share their stupid #brunch. Our new infrastructure will evolve from Freenet/GNUNet/IPFS/etc. It'll be imperfect, but far more resilient to censorship (including self-censorship) than the Facebook Reich.