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> Australia to make social media platforms accountable for the spread of disinformation

As with the link tax stuff, I can see why that's appealing. But with beware regulatory capture.

With any tech regulation like this, key questions to ask are a) how would this affect people running fediverse instances, and b) would it shift the power differential between them and the DataFarms in the right direction?

Strypey 2y ago

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Another important question to ask about new regulations proposed for social media, in particular; how would I feel about this if was a proposal to regulate news media? It's important not to let our antipathy to the DataFarms blind us to the fact that broad brush social media regulation could apply to SubStack and Medium as well as FB and Titter. Potentially even to HitGub and other non-obvious platforms, depending how the regulation is targeted.

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Strypey 2y ago

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One more question I find useful, after 2 years living behind the Great Firewall; how would I feel about the proposed regulation if the CCP was imposing it as a condition of making online services accessible to the Chinese population.