Suggestions: Standardized Social Media Framework, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, Data Ownership,

I think this would be an opportune moment for the w3c community to seek
grants and fundraising for investigation of a means to standardize a basic
social media framework, independent of particular websites or domains, and
a coding language that would allow individual users more control over which
social media companies they wish to use for their individual accounts.

Andrew Yang discussed issues about the problem of seeking antitrust
remedies for this issue, and with the current political and social climate,
we're seeing problems with the management of free speech and appropriate
speech related issues. He also discussed the issue of data ownership, and a
decentralized platform method might allow users to sign up with companies
that would offer competing data, privacy and user content arrangements.

Individual users might be better served if social media posts, friend
networks, etc. had code standards that would allow some method of
interchangeability between social networking sites, and means to separate a
user's social media data from a single company. I'm wondering if this might
allow a market for paid social media hosting to emerge, where the sale of
user data would not be a profit necessity, and where less anonymity, from
the fact users are more physically tied to an actual bank account, for
example, might tone down the anonymous rankor, and fake trolling activity
that tends to surface.

On a related tangent, as a former Web Designer (around 2000), I can attest
that for every advantage the internet has offered to become a tool to
educate, share information, enhance or make new friendships, or conduct
business - especially for non-corporate individuals - the $6 Trillion per
year price tag for Cybercrime, and general climate of lawlessness has made
these advantages worthless.

Hacks against individual contractors are far easier to employ, and level
more severe repercussions, than those against businesses with Enterprise IT
Security and dedicated IT staff, and this provides a competitive advantage
to larger corporate organizations. The internet structure as a whole should
adopt a method for separating people who do not mind having a physically
verified identity from people who want to go online and engage in
criminality.

Hacking is an exploitative activity, despite the, "anti-hero," portrayal
it receives from many. From experience, I can attest that the capacity to
prosecute internet-related crimes is non-existent for most local, state and
federal police agencies, unless connected to severe heinous activity. These
crimes nonetheless can cause serious damage to an individual's freedom and
ability to maintain an income. Anonymity lends enormous usefulness to
criminals, and vastly reduces the internet's usefulness for honest people.

Thanks for your consideration.