[0] Not a lawyer so wikipedia is the best I have - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230
As for buttons "I promisse I'm not Brazilian", that wouldn't really fly if the company in question has a lot of users in Brazil.
I suspect that we will see government enforcement only against big techs (especially Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube).
I genuinely doubt there will be many lawsuits targeting small websites because there isn't money to be made off them. So any litigation here will probably be restricted to personal revenge cases or something like it.
I really wish this had been settled in Congress with more cleat rules and language instead of decided by the courts.
Laws from Brazil apply to you while you are in Brazil - even if temporality - regardless of your nationality.
Brazil's Supreme Court makes social media liable for user content
And it makes sense, nobody wants nor can read all posts if they were not curated.
But that means that social media companies are just content companies like news papers or TV. And they are responsible of what they publish.
Even more important, social media companies should be responsible for the Ads that they show. Scams are too prevalent in social media. Big social media sites profits from the ads, and the users are the ones that pay for it.
It's gonna be very funny when they start coming after whatever brand of thought crime you engage in.
infotainment•7mo ago
Social media is basically what cigarettes were in the 50s: everyone uses it, and seemingly no one is aware of how it is almost entirely bad.
russdill•7mo ago
andrekandre•7mo ago
infotainment•7mo ago
123yawaworht456•7mo ago
IAmBroom•7mo ago
gjvnq•7mo ago
Are forums social media? What about reddit? What about YouTube?
I think what we really need is a ban on algorithmic recommendations that seek to encourage engagement or total time spent on the app.
infotainment•7mo ago
Spivak•7mo ago
Is it a site that hosts user generated content and makes that content available to others in any 1-n fashion? Great, you have social media.
t-writescode•7mo ago
terribleperson•7mo ago
My hope is that such a law would heavily bias sites towards simple, less manipulative algorithms.
infotainment•7mo ago
If you forced, for example, TikTok to do this right now, they would presumably add a page to their app with their recommender algorithm. Then what? Meta or other competitors might be interested in copying aspects of it, but normal users would likely ignore it and continue being addicted to TikTok.
terribleperson•7mo ago
porridgeraisin•7mo ago
Banning targeted ads will greatly reduce the benefit of ads (to the social media company) since they are rendered less effective. This will tip the scales of the cost-benefit tradeoff that the company makes. In this case, the cost of the ad is that it's annoying to the user. Every ad company chooses a tradeoff. If you made the benefit smaller, then they would have to reduce the cost too, which would lead to lower ad volume, which would reduce the incentive for engagement.
Any other way to reduce the effectiveness of ads also works. I'm sure the method I suggested(banning targeting) is not bulletproof, but they key thing that needs to be done is artificially reducing the effectiveness/relevance/quality of ads.
rjmunro•7mo ago
trainerxr50•7mo ago
Banning algorithmic recommendations would need to ban search engines.
Social media is ultimately just a website. Anything I can think of quickly gets down the road of banning the web browser and/or banning email.
The only solution is people have to have the freedom to use these stupid platforms or not. People have to have the freedom to be stupid on stupid platforms.
Brazil is going in a much different direction.
Vilian•7mo ago
IAmBroom•7mo ago