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Sure. For example, the UK has the Online Safety Act of 2023, which came into effect in July of 2025. This is their second attempt at...

Being persecuted by oppressive regimes for attending protests, whistleblowing, and promoting human rights/social justice causes. I'll...

And, moreover, how was it measured to be over the threshold? What metrics of toxicity are used. If this is to be used as a concept for...

I wouldn't hold the UK's implementation of this up as anything other than an object lesson.

One poster defines social media as platforms with toxic algorithms, that push engagement via any means, harvest data and are generally...

Inasmuch as it is entirely true in both cases, I agree. I would certainly disagree with anyone trying to claim molten steel is not a...

Nobody's disputing the difference. They're disputing the words you've chosen to use to label the differences.

Fair enough; I can see the internal consistency in your position. As long as you understand that these personal definitions aren't...

So if Facebook fixes its algorithm, it is no longer social media?

So Facebook only became social media after the algorithm reached a certain threshold of toxicity, and if the problems with the algorithm...

The problem is implementing age verification that isn't trivially easy for 15-year-olds to bypass while at the same time maintaining...

While social media has risks for the young, I think that's a separate issue from the broad social ills we work under now with respect to...

Yeah, as long as there’s an internet, people are going to find ways of being horrible to each other on it. But when it becomes...

Eh nothing wrong with, say, old school MySpace or LiveJournal. It is data brokers designing and owning what amounts to The Internet...

It sounds to me as if they're specifically disagreeing with the assertion that, "Most of the problems go away then".