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Yeah compare this to what China does. If Douyin detects you're a child, it redirects you to child-friendly education algorithms mandated by the Chinese government. It's not a blanket ban, they forced the social media firms to actually change their algorithms.
Exactly! Just look at how many leaks have come out of the big tech firms identifying their own complicity in harming vulnerable users, where they made the explicit corporate decision to bury the reports / terminate the inquiries / continue business as usual, because it would reduce shareholder value to do otherwise.
If we had anything left of the regulatory state we could change the financial pressures and incentives on these companies to make effective self regulation the most profitable route, but instead we get nu-panopticon 3.0.
I would honestly be more in favour of an actual blanket ban on foreign tech companies. At least then we would all be free and could start building something new, while forums and local initiatives run by people you can actually force to like protect kids from pro ED content or whatever BS.
It's pretty clear a lot of social media is shit, but this law sucks.
I feel like the government no longer knows how to be a government. All they do is ban things or tweak tax incentives. We don't build anything, run any public initiatives, or fund any culture.