As an Aussie, my top level take is that Zuckerberg’s complete capitulation to Trump shows why we need domestic regulation of this stuff. The way we expect to be able to talk online shouldn’t shift based on who’s in the White House - ThreadSky

cameronwilson.bsky.social • 50 days ago

As an Aussie, my top level take is that Zuckerberg’s complete capitulation to Trump shows why we need domestic regulation of this stuff. The way we expect to be able to talk online shouldn’t shift based on who’s in the White House

Reposted from Ed Zitron

Also: the naked contempt these companies have for their customers is truly repulsive. This is the time that the tech media should be up in arms and screaming at Meta! We are at the point where measurably harmful things are happening and there's still this bland, "well that happened" reporting

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officialbrucecbr.bsky.social•50 days ago

Also, foreign owned companies shouldn't be able to influence our politics with unregulated misinformation. Alas, one side of politics trades in this sort of stuff and I suspect the upcoming federal election is going to be an unmitigated binfire of bullshit

keeptheskyblue.bsky.social•50 days ago

I think Zuckerberg fully believes Trump will send him to jail if he doesn't bend the knee and do exactly what he wants. Facebook is already a hotbed of toxic content, and doing an 'X' will only hurt revenue.

registradus.bsky.social•50 days ago

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npickard.bsky.social•50 days ago

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oidatsmyleg.bsky.social•50 days ago

I think it will be challenging to implement, and not abused, however the attempt should be made as facts matter and it's really hard to counter blatant lies in a fact-free void.

kages44.bsky.social•50 days ago

Ahhh Grasshopper, you forget the golden rule

Those who have the gold make the rules

dom-ma.bsky.social•50 days ago

Yet another moment to remember the utter travesty that was the ‘news media bargaining code’

cameronwilson.bsky.social•50 days ago

i'm in the camp of it was a dumbass justification for a net ok policy but at some point governments need to bite the bullet and start directly funding journalism rather than these bizarre market led solutions

dom-ma.bsky.social•50 days ago

Agreed on the last part

hotmitches.bsky.social•50 days ago

Too bad everything always depends on who is in the white house

sunburnt.social•50 days ago

cant see it happening while our politicians are in the billionaires back pockets. its either going to be a grass roots movement or we sleepwalk into oligarchy

musk/zuck -> trump -> gina -> dutton

alche-mistress.bsky.social•50 days ago

Joining you more here. I love how it’s perfectly fine for US tech giants to cozy up to its political leaders but TikTok doing the same illicit motions to ban it because it’s “foreign owned”. Slimy double standards. All Trump had to do was signal TikTok might stay and techbros bent the knee.

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