"if this became law, all it would really serve to do is to make social media sites totally unusable. Either, websites would have to stop doing algorithmic ranking of content (which would make the sites unusable for many people) or they'd start massively moderating content to avoid liability -- making sites nearly unusable. "
I liked social media better when it was a chronological list of postings by my friends instead of amplifying 'microtargeted' clickbait and ads. Can we go back to the old system, or is sorting by 'time' an algorithm now?
"(1) that she was unable to tell which products on RedBubble were legitimate and which were infringing (so how the hell could they expect RedBubble to just know?!?) "
Perhaps because RedBubble was not selling any second-hand physical goods, but, as you said a few sentences above that, the trial court found that "with RedBubble, the company would take designs uploaded by users, and pass them on to various print shops for the actual printing".
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Re: Re: Protocols, Not Platforms. We must find a way to lead...
Such protocols already exist, like the Fediverse. In practice, the 'network effect' causes some powerful platform to emerge, like Mastodon / the major apps used to access the protocol.
They were quick to block Gab in various ways: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210303/14474346357/content-moderation-case-study-decentralized-s ocial-media-platform-mastodon-deals-with-influx-gab-users-2019.shtml
Yes, stop doing algorithmic ranking, especially 'microtargeting'
"if this became law, all it would really serve to do is to make social media sites totally unusable. Either, websites would have to stop doing algorithmic ranking of content (which would make the sites unusable for many people) or they'd start massively moderating content to avoid liability -- making sites nearly unusable. "
I liked social media better when it was a chronological list of postings by my friends instead of amplifying 'microtargeted' clickbait and ads. Can we go back to the old system, or is sorting by 'time' an algorithm now?
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"(1) that she was unable to tell which products on RedBubble were legitimate and which were infringing (so how the hell could they expect RedBubble to just know?!?) "
Perhaps because RedBubble was not selling any second-hand physical goods, but, as you said a few sentences above that, the trial court found that "with RedBubble, the company would take designs uploaded by users, and pass them on to various print shops for the actual printing".
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