I mean, that’s exactly what Facebook and YouTube and Twitter do as well just over different things like radicalizing people towards Maga and whatnot.
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BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 week agoIt’s not about the data harvesting, please stop repeating this falsehood.
It’s about how China is controlling the algorithm for polical goals. From pushing its claim over Taiwan to interfering with global elections by showing(or hiding) speicifc content to sway peoples choices.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Facebook and You tube haven’t been pushing Maga content, they’re just allowing it to exist. The feed itself isn’t set to give it to everyone or hide left-wing content for a default user.
Twitter is a different story, and should probably also get banned at this point. Elon is absolutely using it to push his own rhetoric.
Grunt4019@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Really because I’ve had right wing content recommended all the time on YouTube even though I don’t watch it. I don’t see left wing content recommended outside of what I’m already subscribed to.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I consistently see both even though I’m subscribed to neither, so… no idea what you’ve taught the algorithm about yourself.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So what is considered perfectly fine for Facebook and Twitter to do, got it
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
What if I think Facebook and Twitter should be shit canned too?
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They all suck, yeah. I think banning individual social media services is not the solution. The solution is to create meaningful laws that hold any company, Chinese or American, accountable for data privacy and misinformation/influence violations.
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Funny you say that, because Chinese apps like tiktok can’t ever be compliant with GDPR, and American ones are fully reliant on an executive order where Biden pinky swore to not use the Cloud Act against GDPR.
breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
That wouldn’t solve the problem because the Chinese government is not bound by US law in China.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 week ago
Are you the US government cherry picking privacy concerns to eliminate competitors?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 week ago
It’s like having siblings. It’s okay if I call them buttheads, but you’re not allowed to because you’re not family.