2026-10-25 22:01 UTC
I think so. I mean issue with law is always what exact laws they come up with, how it’s phrased and if there’s exceptions in there…
Unfortunately I’m not an expert on Swiss law. I know they’re one of Europe’s oldest democracies. And it’s probably a clever idea to make democracy extend into the digital realm. But it’s completely unclear to me how such a law would look like. I mean how would an email provider assure democratic decision-making isn’t messed with? And how are they planning to balance that with the user’s freedom to not have the government mess with their mail? They’d need to come up with detailed guidelines how to do it, whom this applies to… Maybe it’s more the government and large corporation’s job to make sure fundamental rights are enforced and individuals running webservers don’t have to put in a lot of effort. Maybe it’s supposed to apply to all social media… Maybe having moderators, like we do, is enough… Maybe we need more accountability, preemptively detect misinformation with some kinds of algorithms, … Maybe we’d need to do bookkeeping or adopt impossible age-restriction measures to protect minirs. All depends on those hypothetical laws and what they’d entail.
I think generally speaking the Fediverse is making an effort to honour fundamental rights. We’re mostly against racism, discrimination, caprice, depicting violence isn’t okay here, we try to ban bot armies and abusive people… So we’re already going that direction.
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