Five Tiers of Community Governance

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Five Tiers of Community Governance all mass appeal platforms should adopt in some manner-

1. International- standards that fit all regulatory areas and fundamental free speech standards with an eye toward maximum freedom within a modicum of decorum including civility, decency, and safety

– this should include robust lobbying of international organizations (UN and others) to set higher and more expansive standards of tolerance for free speech
– this should also include a global awareness campaign aimed at debunking the “safety through strict content control” regimen
– this should involve extoling the virtues of free speech while dispelling the myth that allowing free speeh equals endorsing all speech or that free speech is ipso facto promoting the hobgoblins of “hate speech”, or other fears promoted to justify intolerance
– this does NOT mean “everything goes”, adult content of a sexually exploitative nature (especially pedophilia and human trafficking), actual hate speech, and violence are among the things that should be tightly managed and prevented from flourishing
(Nobody wants actual nazis, terrorists, or criminals to use the platform to advance themselves and potentially harm fellow users.)

2. Regulatory areas- standards based on regulatory areas including entities like the EU and individual countries and their constituent provinces (states etc)

– this does not apply to areas under a dictatorship (no special deals for China, Iran, or Russia)
– this may not apply to areas where no employee of the platform is located and is mostly meant to protect employees from prosecution
– lobbying activities within regulatory areas and different countries/provinces will be directed toward maximizing the tolerance for free speech within a modicum of decorum and decency

3. Affinity- different affinity groupings, defined when a user base of at least 50,000 who have a paid subscription account desire their own standards and norms

– these would only see content they desire per agreed standards but would be also held to said standards, although the consequences are they are merely removed from the affinity group
– users could have different accounts in different affinity groups, which might cost $1/month each
– affinity groups have access to premium content and are not served ads
– affinity group standards and norms would be transparent so content producers can cater to them and the top 100 content providers for each affinity group would be listed

4. Advertorial- advertising groups who desire their content to be served only on the basis of agreed standards they negotiate with through an advertorial group (you could have multiple advertorial groups with different standards)

– in this case, there is no danger an advertiser’s sponsored content appears where they don’t want it to appear
– the advertorial groups’ standards will be transparent so content producers who want their ads know how to comply
– advertorial groups’ member entities will be transparent as will the group’s total spending which will be broken down to include the total plus the breakdown of what goes to content producers as well as the top 100 content producers

(Example- if advertisers don’t like Trump, none of their ads would appear within any content generated that includes him or his content, save for news and commentary about him, although it should be possible to filter out “fan content” so advertisers aren’t seen with that.)

5. Preferential- this is a moderation of content through algorithms generated per user who not only choose an affinity group but who may choose what content they like or don’t like

– user vote up or down and/or rate content which determines their preferences
– patterns and commonalities of preferences are made known to content creators and curators who can orient their content accordingly
– creating an organic feedback loop that incentivizes users to produce content to get the greatest reach
– as similar preferences can be determined, prefence groups can be identified and offered the chance to become affinity groups