Liberson Social Media is a Data Privacy and Free Speech Revolution
By: Liberson Social Media
Tags: Social Media, Ban, Data Privacy, Free Speech, Decentralization

SOCIAL MEDIA IS BROKEN

The current social media model is broken. It treats users as commodities and sells their information and attention for profit. Data Privacy is exploited, and Free Speech is increasingly regulated by a confusing mess of internal protocols, social pressure, and government intervention.

The problem is structural. Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are housed in a central location. Users log in to a website, where they are given a profile that lives in that central location, and everything a user does on that profile is tracked, mined for data, and ultimately controlled. If a profile crosses any number of arbitrary lines, it can be suspended or deleted permanently, wiping away troves of contacts, content, and media that the user may have spent years amassing. Voices have been stifled, and attention has been hijacked in the name of profit margins.

WHO WE ARE

In function, Liberson is a microblogging site where people share videos, images, and 300 character posts called “speeches”. But what truly separates Liberson from current social media models is that it has been designed from the ground up to protect data privacy and freedom of expression of its users. This critical difference is due to Liberson’s decentralization protocol. Rather than users coming to a central location to access their profile. These profiles are housed in Personal Data Vaults, where all software, contacts, and media are stored and are as private as any information stored on a personal home computer. Liberson cannot access this data as it is both encrypted and stored in its own location.

OUR THREE PILLARS

Liberson is founded on the three central ideas:

FREEDOM: freedom of speech, freedom from censorship, and freedom to host your data anywhere you’d like, including your own home. PRIVACY: Data that is encrypted, free from data mining, and secured in its own private location. OWNERSHIP: Data that is yours, a network that you own, and control of your own business

YOU OWN A ‘PERSONAL DATA VAULT’

With Liberson, you own a Personal Data Vault that stores your Liberson app. This app connects to the apps in other users’ Vaults and allows for direct communication between users. In these vaults, all profile information, user data, media, and contacts are secured. Essentially, each user has their own individual website rather than a central location to log in to their profile. When a user accesses Liberson, they sign into their Personal Data Vault. So even if Liberson.org were to be shut down, these individual Vaults still function directly with each other. By default, Liberson offers server space for these vaults, but any user can move their Vault to a server of their choosing. Including storage in their own home. All data, materials, and content stored within these Vaults are under complete user ownership and cannot be accessed or deleted by anybody but the owner.

LIBERSON AGORA

Liberson Agora is a public forum where all users can meet, post, follow new contacts, and promote content. The Agora is also similar to the News Feed on traditional social media and allows for global conversations. Things posted to the Agora are considered public and, as such, are subject to FCC laws concerning illegal and objectionable content. Liberson is obligated under law to remove this content when the public space is being abused. Liberson, however, cannot delete the original content from that person’s Data Vault, only from the public newsfeed. In cases of continued abuse, Liberson may remove a user from the Agora. Still, they retain their Privacy Vault, the application, all content stored within, and the ability to connect with their network of contacts. Just as, say, Facebook could remove an uploaded image to their site, they could not remove it from the poster’s computer, the Privacy Vault gives users sovereignty over their data and speech. It makes them wholly responsible for the legality of its contents.

YOUR PERSONAL DATA VAULT CANNOT BE “BANNED”

Because of the decentralization protocol, your Data Vault will always be able to communicate with your network of connections, even if Liberson removed you from the public news feed or if the public forum was offline. Your contacts may choose to sever that connection individually, but they cannot delete that content from your Vault, where it is housed. Liberson, likewise, cannot remove or see information in that Vault and could not be compelled to, as it has no capacity to do so. Taken even further, if your Vault was forced off a server for whatever reason, you could take that Vault to another hosting service and reconnect just as you always could. Each Vault is its own autonomous network, with everything needed to go live and communicate with its own connections. In short, the only person who can shut you down is you.

LIBERSON CANNOT SEE YOUR DATA

Liberson can only see the content you choose to post to the public forum. All other data is safely encrypted and locked inside your Personal Data Vault and is attached to your own application. Just as you are personally responsible for all information stored within your computer, so too are you accountable for the content stored in your Vault. Liberson cannot access or police your Vault, nor can we give a third party the information they need to access it. We simply do not have it.

DECENTRALIZATION MEANS YOU CANNOT BE SHUT OFF

Because your Personal Data Vault holds your profile, the application, contents, contacts, and all your activities, we cannot turn it off. Nobody else can either. Even if Liberson itself was offline, users have everything they need to continue connecting with your network. Since you can host it wherever you wish, even a server shutdown could not ultimately prevent you from going live with your Vault. Though we are bound by FCC regulation to prevent certain kinds of illegal posting on our Public Forum (Liberson Agora), we cannot stop your posting within your network of contacts.

5 WAYS YOU CAN HELP

#1 Sign up at Liberson.org to be a part of our upcoming beta launch

#2 Follow us out in the world and help amplify our voice:

#3 Take a quick moment to answer a few questions on what we can do to make Liberson even better:

#4 Help spread the word to all your networks!

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Liberson is The People’s Social Network.

Together, we have the power to make Big Tech small. We invite you to join this Data Privacy and Free Speech Revolution and let’s free us all https://liberson.org/

Watch this:

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How it works:

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#5 Join the team

We’re coordinating a team of volunteer social media advocates to help amplify our message and to reach out to your favorite content creators. Want to help make Liberson great? Reach out to us at info@liberson.org, and let’s get started!

The current social media model is broken. It treats users as commodities and sells their information and attention for profit. Data Privacy is exploited, and Free Speech is increasingly regulated by a confusing mess of internal protocols, social pressure, and government intervention.

The problem is structural. Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are housed in a central location. Users log in to a website, where they are given a profile that lives in that central location, and everything a user does on that profile is tracked, mined for data, and ultimately controlled. If a profile crosses any number of arbitrary lines, it can be suspended or deleted permanently, wiping away troves of contacts, content, and media that the user may have spent years amassing. Voices have been stifled, and attention has been hijacked in the name of profit margins.