Don’t pretty much all Social Media have a chronological „Following“ feed already? Methinks they’re just going to argue that switching to that feed is „turning off“ the „algorithm“, no?

I mean, this is pretty good in theory, in practice, we can just move more people to the fediverse

Algorithm: a specific step-by-step procedure for solving a problem or accomplishing some end

Software is full of algorithms.

I know there is also the recent meaning where "algorithm" stands for recommender systems and algorithmic curation, but I expect lawmakers to be a little more precise in their wording.

On youtube turn off the auto play and mindfully choose what you want. Stop getting force fed like a mindless bag. Also use Duck video player and skip the ads.

Misinformation,

Childlike common clay masses,

Like free heroin

Coming up: upload your ID to verify your Australian citizenship

(but props to Australia for trying to regulate it nevertheless)

I hope the EU follow up and do the same

Should’ve done this instead of garbage age verification.

Insert, "can I get some of that" meme.

Article is light on details. I'm curious how they define what is "algorithm"-generated content and what isn't.

Am I the only one who thinks big tech won't do jack shit other than nod and smile and install a user button that doesn't actually change anything at all?

They are so NOT going to turn this off. This -- the ability to manipulate users by controlling exactly what they see -- is the sole reason they are in business. It gets them ad revenue, data to resell, and massive, uncontrollable political power.

And they're just going to let a user turn that highly individualized control off and turn themselves into a less monetizable, more ad immune user one by one because some govt told them to? The same governments that have been telling them not to do this or that for decades now?

Lol, pull the other one.

I'd like to shut off fhe algorithms forcing me to see right wing transphobia on facebroach

I would probably use facebook much more if my feed was only my friends and followed pages. Their loss on insisting on this I guess.

Nice.

Someone please tell them they can already do that. It's called the Fediverse.

Damn, first legitimately good thing I've seen come out of that country in a while as far as legislation is concerned.

When I was on TikTok, I tried to stick to the "following" feed only, but it was very hard not to check the "for you page" (algorithmic feed), because the app is so good at knowing how to dazzle the user. It also defaulted to showing the algorithm when the app is reopened.

I only know a handful of other people who used the app, but they described the same problem: they follow people, but then they just use the algorithmic feed instead anyway.

All this to say that there are ways to present a choice to the user in such a way that users will not engage with that choice.

I've been saying this for a while.

Of course, our right wing nut jobs won't vote for it because they need rage bait to get votes (and normal people don't post rage bait).

If this passes, Australia will turn sane again

Reality: social media will be made unavailable in all Australia.