Well there a lot of posts here decrying the legislation, as expected. This is pretty ironic given Zuckerberg's recent request for more government involvement i

Well there a lot of posts here decrying the legislation, as expected. This is pretty ironic given Zuckerberg's recent request for more government involvement in regulating content on social media. Anyway, I think this is a positive move. The government should start with an extreme policy, anything less and nothing will change. Social media businesses basically do whatever they like, and have monetised human attention and outrage without any regards to the consequences. Brexit, kids getting measles, what happened in Christchurch... it is pointless to run counterfactuals, but the probability that social media contributed to these events significantly is certainly not zero. Society needs to defend itself against these entities which don't have our best interests at heart. Is it a well thought out legislation? Sure doesn't look like it. But then we aren't regulating schools or fresh air or hospitals, are we?