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The Perfect Storm Conference, Brussels, Thursday 30th January
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(2/2) Using a “top-down approach” comes with major risks of “blind spots.”
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(2/2) "There will be people who will want to turn back the clock, but it’ll be quite difficult to do."
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(2/2) If those contender platforms then grow their business and gain market share, they can impose competitive pressure that may pressure Big Techs to revisit their practices. If not, regulators could make certification mandatory for those platforms, he says.
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(2/2) We need to go beyond regulating the practices of Big Tech to their algorithms, which will reveal the true workings of the platforms, enhance transparency and avoid misinformation, Lavie says.
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(2/2) Regain our sovereignty by allowing countries and citizens to sue Big Tech for causing instability. Age-limit social media.
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That’s a key incentive of a business model where advertising drives revenue.”
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"It's the algorithmic amplification."
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Meta censors queer content. Meta censors abortion content. Meta censors media content from German public broadcasters. So it’s not about freedom of speech of such as an absolutist principle, it’s about whose freedom of speech and whose freedom of reach,” @alexandrageese.bsky.social adds.
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Outsized power in the business community has now merged with the political power of the Trump Administration and that will have disastrous impacts if not stopped, @marietjeschaake.bsky.social says to audience applause.
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(2/2) “I’m just hoping more harm doesn’t have to be done before we realize we’re all barking up the wrong tree.”
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(2/2) The current model of “surveillance based, centalized, autocratic technology” is “utterly incompatible with democratic principles and the human rights that we all prioritize,” McCourt says.
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(2/2) On the other hand, Alford notes there’s “a very wide disparity” on some tariffs like EVs, where U.S. vehicles are taxed more coming into the EU than vice versa. “There will be greater reciprocity on tariffs,” he predicts.
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