Youth Assembly Remains Torn Over Proposed Anti-Bullying Measures

Young people often understand the problems that the digital world creates for them much better than adults do. Despite this, they are rarely empowered to take an active part in the world that affects them. Instead, their lives are governed entirely by a tussle between Silicon Valley product directors and policymakers.

Our approach to social media makes it possible to establish governance for distinct spaces. Types of content allowed rules for content moderation can be decided at the level of a particular interest group. This offers the possibility of youth-governed social media platforms, accessible only to specific age ranges and governed by them.

In this headline, we imagine a world in which the governance of this system takes place through a democratic assembly of the youth network’s users. Establishing democratic self-governance doesn’t make hard problems disappear, but it does empower the affected parties to make difficult decisions for themselves.