The Time Has Come

Our centralized, authoritarian detour must end.

In July, 2021, the long march of centralized control of the internet has reached a zenith. The major players emerged in the mid 2000s, sold themselves as libertarian execution of American ideals, and we were all told not to worry about the top-down corporate structures and massive R&D budgets producing proprietary intellectual property. The young founders would never let profane concerns like profit and power derail their noble mission to maximize freedom.

We've reached this zenith not because private overreach has become unpalatable to too many, but rather because underlying relationships with public power can no longer be denied. California's collaboration with private companies to control recent election narratives has been made a matter of public record, and the White House has doubled down with a series of statements openly stating that it intends to exert control over content published on social media.

The time has come to return to our roots. The freedom to speak is uniquely protected in the United States, and the internet was decentralized from its inception. Consumer sentiment will shift back in the direction of freedom, and in a few years, we'll look back and wonder how we ever got here.

Ology Newswire, Inc. was formed to produce, operate, and distribute Public Square Network software that runs on identities controlled by the participants and functions to distribute content to those who choose to see it.

Ology Newswire's corporate formation documents require the technology to be open sourced, publisher identities may be self-hosted, and the network broadcast components are radically open for replication, so that censorship by any participant, including Ology Newswire itself, is easily overcome.

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