Someone else is now saying that we must put an end to big tech's use of recommendation algorithms to get users addicted (and, along the way, to push right-wing disinformation on them).
Discussion
Lets act together and make pressure on politicians in the european parlament to enforce strict european laws upon big tech companies, to free our friends on legacy social media. That people get back the freedom to see only what they choose to see. No active algorythms that bloat our feed with racist content and other propaganda to form narratives! ⚠️
"Second, apply serious political pressure on Ireland to get it to enforce the EU’s data protection law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), against big tech.
This is essential because big tech’s algorithms rely on particularly intimate personal data about our tastes and triggers to decide what content to feed us. This in turn keeps us avidly scrolling so that more ads can be sold for our attention. The GDPR prohibits the processing of intimate data that might reveal such things as our political views, beliefs and sexual desires unless we have specifically been asked to switch the system on, warned about the consequences and then separately asked to confirm this is really what we want to do. The tech platforms do not do this.
Enforcing these rules would switch big tech’s algorithms off at a stroke, restoring X and other platforms to their pre-2014 golden age, before the algorithm. People, rather than big tech’s algorithms, would again decide what they say, see and share with their friends."