You’re conflating free speech of individuals, with engagement driven black box recommendation algorithms of corporations.
It’s a common mistake. I think most people make it.
A company can allow people to post things, and for people to see them if they like, without algorithmically pushing it in endless scrolling interfaces.
For example Lemmy and Mastodon. You only see what you choose to subscribe to. The sites don’t chose to push any content into your feed because an algorithm thinks you’ll like it.
There is a big difference between the two and the later isn’t a hindrance to free speech.
averyminya@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Or we could, you know, force social media companies to not use psychologists to make their apps more addictive by design. Something called ethics.
It’s extremely telling that you can look for a job as a psychologist for Meta and all the opportunities that are available are UX researchers.