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Study: Psychologists conclude that social media algorithms have a negative influence on users mental health (news.utdallas.edu)
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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Howabout this:

All social media algorithms that direct content flow to users are required to be open source, in perpetuity, at least for viewing, so that actual unbiased folks can audit them. Maybe make a new liscense class for this, if need be, so companies can still own the code, but it just has to be publically reviewable.

Would you install blackbox code on your pc?

Well, would you let a blackbox determine what information is fed into your own brain?

Mandate transparency.

[–] martti@suppo.fi 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

That's what Pirate parties advocate for, actually. They do seem to gain back in popularity with the chat control proposal. Problem of the mainstream left parties is that they heavily underrate importance of free software. Underrate to the level of buying iphones, macbooks, subscriptions and so forth. Pirate parties are actually nice step to secure privacy of left-activists in the neoliberal future.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I did not know that, but that entirely makes sense.

I'm American; if we had a 'pirate party' type party, it would be considered a terrorist organization by our pedophile president and his cult of closeted christian racist theocrat morons.

But uh yeah... world economy and society broadly is hugely run by tech and tech companies, you'd think a more nuanced and informed discussion about tech law and policy would accompany that... but nope!

[–] martti@suppo.fi 1 points 1 hour ago

There are Pirate Parties in U.S and Canada. Yet U.S politics are bad asf.