CCC talk: The four freedoms for online platforms

Our digital communities are controlled by corporate platforms that surveil, manipulate, and arbitrarily deplatform us. We need a Bill of Digital Rights—ensuring privacy, ownership, algorithmic control, and self-governance. This talk lays out the Four Freedoms for Social Media and how open protocols like ATProtocol, ActivityPub, and Nostr make them possible. The future of social media must serve communities, not corporations—and we must demand it.

Talk by Rabble: https://media.ccc.de/search?p=Rabble

8/14/20251 min read

Nothing says summer like watching Chaos Computer Club talks 🤓 🍹

This talk lays out what we could demand from platforms/social protocols:
1. The Freedom to Connect – No one should be prevented from communicating or organizing due to corporate interests or government pressure.
2. The Freedom to Move – Users and communities must be able to leave one platform and take their relationships, content, and identity elsewhere.
3. The Freedom to Understand & Control Algorithms – People should know how their feeds are shaped and have the power to change them.
4. The Freedom to Self-Govern – Communities should set their own rules, rather than being subject to arbitrary moderation and deplatforming.

Very relevant in the wave of talks about hashtag#Bluesky, hashtag#fediverse and hashtag#platformregulation in general