Ofc the epstein class doesn’t want that. They’d lose out on children to victimize.
Is anyone thinking of the billionaire pedos? No, they’re only thinking about themselves.
There is a reason that gambling is regulated (in some countries). Why not do the same for addictive mechanisms in social media? You wouldn’t need to ban social media for children then. 🙄
Exactly. Adults can’t handle this trash very well either.
One fucking horse armor at the beginning.
Yanks out.
Its ok the money facebook and x lose will go to palantier and any number of American ai companies verifying your id though their systems
Yeah, the UK severing economic ties with others has gone really well recently. Let’s have more of that, right?
EU insists that cars turn on a self-driving feature for lane keeping every ignition cycle. This is a dangerous feature causing cars to be jolted into obstacles.
Whatever you say, Mr. Farage.
Farage would suck off donald for a bag quavers
Careful now your true motivations are showing.
They don’t care
That’s how you know it’s probably a good idea.
Personally I’d go a step further and regulate algorithmic feeds in general. It’s pretty clear at this point that feeding people a steady drip of content picked to maximize “engagement” above all else has done incalculable damage.
Why can’t see regulate algorithmic feeds? This idea that we are somehow protecting the kids is stupid, and everybody knows it.
Exactly. Anything conservatives urge should probably mean doing the opposite
One of the biggest things I miss is the old YouTube “algorithm”. Before everything was personalized based on your subscriptions and watch history. YouTube was a rabbit hole, the whole site. I miss starting out just watching some random video and then going on the adventure of different videos leading to all sorts of different topics. I’ve always wondered if there’s a site that can return that algorithm, or if I could somehow replicate it.
My hope is that’s what the Fediverse and “old web” becomes someday. A sort of quiet, commercially unviable place where all the internet dwellers have congregated once again. Where all those oldschool data hoarders can share their stuff again.
It feels quaint compared to hearing tiktok videos, which is my new #1 pet peeve. Just the sound sets me off.
One of the biggest things I miss is the old YouTube “algorithm”. Before everything was personalized based on your subscriptions and watch history. YouTube was a rabbit hole, the whole site. I miss starting out just watching some random video and then going on the adventure of different videos leading to all sorts of different topics. I’ve always wondered if there’s a site that can return that algorithm, or if I could somehow replicate it.
In the UK? Israel’s other most successful vassal state? Have you even read Orwell?
This. Pre-2010 social media, which basically showed a feed with the posts of the people you followed, had a lot less negative impact on people. The engagement maximization strategy multiplies “negative” news, because outrage apparently engages more than good news. And current algorithmic feeds like TikTok destroy attention span and make people dumber.
And while we’re at it, ban (or at least heavily regulate) dating apps, the only business where the companies sell the opposite product of what they supposedly offer. If people find long-term partners through the apps they would stop using them, so the companies are incentivized to help you not find love and real relationships.
Pre-2010 social media still had issues. It incentivised likes and views, which then social media companies capitalized (literally) and then it became a terrible feedback loop. The desire for likes/views is deeply coded in our psyche and can’t change that.
The problem is and has been humans.
That’s why I said less negative impact.
And we can’t change human nature, but we can force social media companies to change.
Or just make new social media websites that are similar to the pre-2010 websites.
Social media is older than likes and views. Usenet for instance is older than the Web.
usenet is not social media.
Also RIP usenet. It is long gone.
The Usenet user count has never been higher than it currently is, and it very much is social media. What changed is that AT&T and others stopped including Usenet access as part of your Internet plan several years ago so it got a little harder to get to but not impossible.
In what universe is Usenet social media? Seriously?
Usenet is dead. Gone. What remains today is just a shell game of corporate owners. It is nothing like what it used to be.
Next thing you know you will try and tell me Lemmy is social media.
Lemmy isn’t social media? Given that it is mostly a federated reddit clone, I would argue it is. Probably even more social than reddit considering that reddit has now more bots than people, unlike Lemmy (at least for now), and I think that a platform full of bots talking among themselves is not really “social”.
The problem is and has been humans.
Well, yeah, but unless you’re suggesting we exterminate the species, the answer must be regulating the way we interact with each other, like the person above suggested.
If I have to hear one more fucking second of some random fuckwit on tiktok, I’m voting for exterminating the species.
If you hate tiktok so much why are you being exposed to it on a regular basis? I have never once opened a tiktok link intentionally, probably for similar reasons that you dislike the service, but that hasn’t been very hard to do.
My coworkers are smooth brains. I don’t have to open it, or have it installed. I hear it in the break rooms, I hear it at the exit computer, I hear it on downtimes.
Belfast is currently burning in many places. Loads of the rioters are young lads in their teens. While the word of mouth played some role, the bulk of the blame for facilitating the organisation of these riots falls onto social media. This is not the first time, not will it be the last time unless social media is available only to people old enough to have some common sense.
It would be great to clip those over 78 from social media, too.
Send Nana some actual photos.
My grandpa’s in his 90s and he never touched a computer. Whenever we’ve got photos we want to send to him. We have to print them out at Walgreens and then mail them to him. Lol
How will we brain wash them with US propaganda if you ban it!!!
Think of th children
Oh, I’m sure its only because they are worried about online privacy and digital freedom.
Meta aren’t even moderating anymore.
That’s why they’re getting banned from everywhere
I’ve reported illegal incitement on numerous occasions and nothing ever gets done. I’ve reported violent incitement and it is never against community standards
We have gel blaster companies advertising to states in Australia where they are banned and vape companies using meta to push more vaping to kids
Fuck them
TikTok is the same, it’s all incompetent mod-bots. I’ve reported about 100 catfish accounts (impersonating influencers and reuploading their content) and most of them are ignored with “Status: No violations”.
wtf is a gel blaster, and why would it be banned?
It’s a play gun that shoots. Basically, it’s something that Australias shittiest people use to help normalize guns
We only have 1 state in Australia that allows their sale I think, and meta happily lets them advertise everywhere. They don’t care. Sure it’s legal for them to do so.
They also happily promote our local right wing racists too, who get a lot of engagement
Even animal cruelty or porn meta cares very little. Lots of hunters with dead animals all over their profile promoting guns all over meta.
I’m not sure 12 year olds should be having that stuff pop up on their news feed. Even less the constant illegal incitements
Social media is the new religion. Start em young and get the hooked!
“How will we be able to groom kids?”
Fuck me I hate this so much because the UK just throwing mass surveillance on everything is hardly a win and that is the method they are looking at.
Why do you have to ban social media? Its just an information stream. Its up to the user to not get addicted to it. Just like how its up to you to not get addicted to Snickers bars and turn in into a fatass
