I like the idea of publicly funded platforms for social networks, however, the implementation needs to be thought out.

The idea of offering university-managed blogs or sites to students has been considered and tried (eg., at UBC) but the students reject them - universities cannot resist managing the content of such spaces, and students (and even student groups) want an autonomy the institution is not willing to grant them.

The library is a better idea, but still stands liable to be the target of political interference. There needs to be some mechanism that renders publicly funded online spaces immune to interference, while also being free of the other limitations commercial services impose on users.