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This is great, and we should celebrate China for doing this. I would genuinely love to see this kind of legislative will in Western society. My main question i
by HippoBaro 5y ago
This is great, and we should celebrate China for doing this. I would genuinely love to see this kind of legislative will in Western society.
My main question is that it seems very hard to distinguish between a legitimate recommendation system and a system that is designed to capture your attention. For instance, I like being able to see related items on Amazon when evaluating a purchase. That recommendation empowers me as a consumer.
China can afford to make the law vague because the regulator will never be challenged in its interpretation. That wouldn't work elsewhere, I think.
That being said, not all is great. China grants rights to people over their data while making it clear that they don't own any of it. This legislation is part of a broader regulatory framework designed to give the state a true monopoly free of all limits. This should give us pause.