What I do hope is that this will drive the banning of Meta, X and others from the EU. I know this will hurt a lot of people short term, but long term, we might be the only part of the world without a severe mental illness epidemic.
Banning social media sites is a pretty draconian approach that probably will not work anyway and I believe it to be completely reactionary. The EU formerly did have influence on Twitter content. They lost that and aren't too happy about that.
I think it was a necessary correction and I don't want to live in the EU silo and I don't trust their DSA "trusted flaggers". What do they ban next, HN? I don't think it has official fact checkers either.
The turning point had been last year when Zuckenberg explained to Congress that Administration forced Facebook to manipulate public opinion but he now regrets it.
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/unpacking-mark-zuckerbergs...
Maybe you thought wrong.
I genuinely want to understand this, I'm not american.
Source https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/12/16/middleeast/syria-assad-pr...
Seeing as FB moderation was already lax on hate speech, do you think calling women 'household objects' will not be permitted in the future FB?
E.g. FB was banning people for using a historical term when discussing Russian-Ukraine war - „Muscovite“. Which has no derogatory connotations mind you. Besides reminding that modern Russia started as Duchy of Moscow. And to make distinction between Rus/Ruthenian people (e.g. Kievan Rus) and modern Russia. Yet FB considered it hate speech for some god forsaken reason.
When do you think that era started?
Many eras and errors.
Cyclical. Maybe the next gen will celebrate its version of dumb phones and acid.
It was a clear setup