Kanye West was censored from Twitter for tweeting anti-Semitic hate speech. This has again stirred up a very important debate in the 21st century: free speech on social media. 

Whatever you think of the current situation, I think that many people view the debate in the wrong way. Twitter is a private company that can do what they want. If you are worried about free speech, the problem you should be addressing is that there is a monopoly over social media. The only non-monopoly online public communication service is email, as  Eyal Hertzog has pointed out on several occasions. 

If you don’t like Gmail’s Terms of Use, you can switch to Outlook. Or iCloud. Or something else.

If you don’t like Twitter’s ... there’s no where to go.

Why do we have this problem? 

The root-cause of this problem is a computer science one. Until Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin in 2009, we did not have a good way to store data on a public database, in a decentralised manner. De-monopolised private communication  in the form of email could work -- but a decentralised public database was more tricky. 

Nakamoto came up with the idea of a distributed ledger to create a decentralised public database. This is blockchain. He applied it to the communication of value -- money. 

Thanks to Nakmoto, we have a good way to create decentralised public databases. BBS uses blockchain technology to facilitate the potential reality where we do not have a monopoly over our public communication services. 

This way, people will have choice.  And as long as Kanye isn't breaking the law, he can broadcast whatever he likes over the internet.  He probably won’t have a large following -- but it will be left to the free market. Not to the monopoly. 

BBS allows for de-monopolisation of social media! 

Let me know what you think.