a benevolent dictatorship that encourages autonomy.
That sounds like an oxymoron. You either encourage autonomy or you're a dictatorship. You can't do both.
Of course you can. You can be a dictator who permits certain freedoms and autonomy - see Singapore for example.
Most open-source projects are a "benevolent dictatorship". For example, Linux with Linus as the dictator.
Certain freedoms, yes, but we're specifically talking about speech here. What other freedoms are relevant to a website? If free speech is only free as long as you don't offend somebody, that is an oxymoron.
Would you argue that everybody working on the Linux kernel is "autonomous", though?
That sounds like an oxymoron. You either encourage autonomy or you're a dictatorship. You can't do both.
Of course you can. You can be a dictator who permits certain freedoms and autonomy - see Singapore for example.
Most open-source projects are a "benevolent dictatorship". For example, Linux with Linus as the dictator.
Certain freedoms, yes, but we're specifically talking about speech here. What other freedoms are relevant to a website? If free speech is only free as long as you don't offend somebody, that is an oxymoron.
Would you argue that everybody working on the Linux kernel is "autonomous", though?