> What I object to is the commodification of attention, What exactly would you regulate or "crack down" on? People are free to choose what websites they visit

> What I object to is the commodification of attention, What exactly would you regulate or "crack down" on? People are free to choose what websites they visit. This idea that evil social media companies have used technology to force people to view content they don't want to see has gotten out of hand. > the deployment of sophisticated algorithms Again, what exactly would you regulate away? Ban websites from showing related content? Ban Facebook from showing you things your friends are interested in? Ban Netflix from showing you shows you may like based on your previous viewings? Would you ban Hacker News' algorithm that determines which posts are shown on the front page? Just force everything to be un-algorithmic and chronologically ordered like the new page and hope for the best?