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thisisa_bot t1_jdf1t2r wrote

Reply to comment by FrankoIsFreedom in Utah Gov. signs parental consent laws for minor social media use by ethereal3xp

How do you regulate engagement algorithms without government censorship? Don’t you know what that leads to?

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FrankoIsFreedom t1_jdhib6c wrote

Wait are you really trying to argue that prioritizing and giving special treatment to SOME content because it gets higher engagements is LESS censorship than just getting rid of the algorithm? What?

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bschlueter t1_jdi2xf9 wrote

There will always be an algorithm. For social media feeds, it could be minimal, like bookmarks, but then you still need to decide what order to present items in, and just gets more complicated from there.

Perhaps exposing why a particular item is being presented to you and allowing you to modify that behaviour could allow users better control, but that would get very complex (for the user) very quickly.

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