Lately, the controversial topic of censorship on Big Tech platforms reached a turning point when U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign account was banned on both Twitter and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) for “spreading coronavirus misinformation.”
The conversation over who has control over what kinds of information that get out to what kinds of audiences is not new. As we move toward Web 3.0, many believe this future version of the internet will be a more decentralized, immutable and censorship-resistant version of the web.
Zhong Gengfa is the CEO and founder of ChainUP — a global one-stop blockchain technology service provider. He previously served as the technical director of Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) SNS Division where he founded its technical team and also served as the chief technology officer of peer-to-peer car rental platform START.