Rauch: Platform algorithms limit speech, making independent domain ownership essential
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Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch argues against relying entirely on centralized social media platforms like X, noting that algorithms control reach regardless of free speech policies.
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“There's this question of like freedom of speech and X that's censored versus not censored and whatever. There's a question of the algorithms, right? Which I think is a meta question. Sir, you can post anything, but will the algorithm select you such that you're in the for you tab? And so I think fundamentally still will be a diehard of Try to own your own space of the internet and making sure that that remains sort of the open platform for everybody.”
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