• WatDabney
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    508 hours ago

    A government that can ban social media sites is going to base their choices of which ones to ban on their preferences - not yours.

    • @TORFdot0
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      137 hours ago

      The EU seems to be handling it fine, the point is not targeting specific sites but targeting user hostile behaviors against citizens

      • @[email protected]
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        127 hours ago

        That is the thing that fear mongering against the Government always fails to address.

        Yes, banning one thing out of ten that all do the same thing is wrong. Yes, we do not want to give the Government the ability to ban specific sites because history.

        But banning or regulating algorithms, which are the actual problem, does not stop social media sites from existing. It just stops them from being able to manipulate massive groups of people by hiding/pushing the information the company wants one to see.

        Unfortunately, the majority doesn’t see algorithmic social media as a bad thing because they really do like echo chambers, and politicians don’t ever seem to understand what a “root issue” is.