Subnostr

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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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Here's a good example

"[DIA] has today released a discussion document for consultation which aims to make it less common for people to see harmful and illegal content."

Hamish Cardwell, 2023

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/491136/consultation-opens-on-proposals-to-make-online-spaces-safer

Sounds reasonable, right? But what if NORML and other drug law reform groups had their own fedi instances? Or any activist group that sometimes engages in Direct Action that's technically illegal to fight much greater wrongs (drug prohibition, carbon emissions etc).

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