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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • Why only kids? We all need to be protected from social media.

    I don’t know how to suggest good national policy, but I think social media should have these:

    • controls on how far you can doom scroll
    • being able to opt out of algorithms by seeing things in time order and from (optionally) only white listed sources and allowing block lists in a variety of ways, etc, etc
    • heavy moderation of blatantly illegal content.
    • heavily curated advertising (or none at all, users can pay)
    • separation of political content (maybe a system of tagging so topics that are not of interested can be hidden…maybe this could be crowd sourced)
    • Strict control of data collection
    • The ability to delete/be forgotten

    I don’t know how propaganda or corporate interests can be excluded, but that would be ideal.

    Controlling children’s access is so insurmountably difficult, I don’t even know where to start.



  • I know this is a joke, but if this is genuinely how someone thinks, then it so self-absorbed and narrow minded to not be able to step out of your own mindset.

    The comment implies absolute good/evil and that people are knowingly acting evil. The people you don’t agree with do have consistent moral principles that they are working with (however misguided or skewed they may be). I can’t stand racist/sexist people either, but if you can’t see how these people are worried that “woke” people are destroying their view of society and threatening their morals, then you won’t really be able to engage them to change their minds. This entrenched thinking is why all discourse is now just shouting matches at each other.