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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".
Yeah
The biggest issue isn't even that fb is no longer modding properly.
It's that they're no longer modding properly and shiity ragebait racist contact is being promoted because engagement drives it
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
Think paintball guns that shoot the absorbent gel balls used to fill vases for cut flowers.
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 we regulate algorithmic feeds? This idea that we are somehow protecting the kids is stupid, and everybody knows it.
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.
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.
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.
Exactly. Anything conservatives urge should probably mean doing the opposite
In the UK? Israel's other most successful vassal state? Have you even read Orwell?
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.
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.
Shut up White House and deal with your own shit.
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.
Whitehouse can fuck off
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.
i'm with donny boy here. instead of limiting what people can do, push regulation that forbid corporations from building the kind of software that is bad for your mental health. ban infinite scrolling features, algorithmic feeds, and dark patterns. make the fines equal or higher than gdpr because now it's about people's actual health.
...that's what they want instead, right?
It is already against the law for them to keep data and market to children under 13 and they are supposed to get parents permission over 13. How quaint that you think that they would follow laws.
I bet the real reason they're taking this position is because then the under 16s couldn't be manipulated through social media. They'd lose a valuable target of propaganda.
Because that's how the tech bros get new talent for their deranged orange leader. /s
It would be great to clip those over 78 from social media, too.
Send Nana some actual photos.
How will we brain wash them with US propaganda if you ban it!!!!
Think of th children
if this regime is urging your country not to do something, they're probably planning an exploit
“American companies need access to all those impressionable, developing minds.”
It’s algorithmic, targeted advertising that’s the real problem.
IMO, the same advert should be shown to all users (at least per country) so that targeting political bullshitting / “advertising” can be knocked on the head, as well as the adverts logged in a public system so they can be reviewed and the funder identified.
I would absolutely support a law to ban targeted advertising. Contextual advertising (based only on the content being viewed) is the only ethical form of advertising (if that's not an oxymoron), and the surveillance apparatus built to enable targeted advertising is going to be remembered as one of the biggest mistakes in human history - if we ever manage to move past it.
Oh, I'm sure its only because they are worried about online privacy and digital freedom.
Of course, how else will the pedos find and abduct the kids. Social media makes their job easier.
How are the Christians gonna groom them if they get too old?