With free technology you can make it impossible to violate the 1 st amendment given proper use of the software . Richard Stallman is a big advocate for this , it ' s one of the most important tech pursuits in the modern age and yet not many intelligent people are even thinking about free technology think open source but not proprietary With sufficiently free technology it will be obvious when manipulation has been done and you can crowdsourcedemocratize community policing . The organization in control of a particular forum can still be a private organization and if their methods are sufficiently freetransparent you don ' t necessarily have the problems we ' re referring to . The org doesn ' t have to be legally compelled to act morally if no one will use them if they act immorally .