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Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[–] 15 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Will be able to turn off - meaning on by default. It should be off by default.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    The greens I think want it to be opt in.

    However, it's better to pass something and improve it later

    At the moment, it's a shit show

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago* (2 children)

    Honestly I've been in thinking over it and solution might be algorithms that are both open source and cryptographically random. Open source ofc, people should know exactly how their algorithms work. Cryptographically random precisely because a fully open source algorithm might be easy to game. And this should be made compulsory

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