Ngl y'all this one passing the senate had me in a deep deep depression slump ever since it happened. I'm sure it'll get massaged and brought up again but a win is a win and for the moment I can breath again.
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in reply to @Bigg's post:
i wish i knew this last night oh my god the deep searing fear i felt was.. ...
What i am realizing after the fact is that there was actually some stuff in here that sounded like it could genuinely be good regulations of tech that now won’t happen either. The tech industry’s posture towards designing unhealthy addiction machines and selling user data actually do suck, but this bill was a bad way to address them. I’m really not sure how to address that.
I mean part of a solution is platforms doing stuff like cohost’s intentional shunning of addiction-driving dark patterns, but how do you convince tech companies to stop doing that without straight up censorship? It’s quite a pickle imo
I don't think you can do this kind of stuff from within a tech company like you say, and methods of control like censorship cut both ways of course. You get the regulation, but it comes in transphobia flavor.
imo the best solutions come from people building their own systems that fill the need which comes from the big platforms. like cohost is a part of that.
I feel like what could really make a difference is investment in people’s ability to sustainably create and run places like cohost. Idk what that looks like but i feel like it would help at least create competition for corporate social media
We've got our own version of this in Canada though. I believe it's bill S-201 (or 210?) and the NDP is supporting it for some stupid fucking reason.