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Minds are 'not currency for social media,' says EU as TikTok kills Lite Rewards
- dejj 2y ago> The strategy is as simple as it is disturbing: rewarding screen time with financial incentives. This is just work in IT.
- dartos 2y agoIT work isn’t marketed to children
- mtrovo 2y agoSo regulate the market to prohibit children to use.
- dartos 2y agoThat’s easier said than done for internet products. As far as I see it there are 2 broad options, which I exaggerate here. You could either regulate companies such that they aren’t allowed to engage in addictive and potentially harmful behaviors (including gacha games and maybe gambling games) OR Require everyone who accesses the internet be known and registered in such a way that any service could verify that said person has the legal permission to access that service. I’d take the former.
- BossingAround 2y agoIT work does not force you to stare at content that's spreading brain rot... Unless you work with in a cloud-native, ai-native environment that has more microservices than developers I guess (I jest, I jest).
- iosonofuturista 2y agoDon't jest, just say more micro services than paying customers and you have my work life described.
- yard2010 2y agoYou know the famous russian saying: in every jest there's a little bit of jest (...and so much truth)
- BossingAround 2y agoI'd say the saying is common in a lot of Eastern European languages, not only Russian :)
- bigNoo 2y ago[dead]
- mtrovo 2y ago> rewarding screen time with financial incentives So the social media companies can do this through ads but not their users, interesting line to draw. It's really hard to not see the DMA as some ambiguous law that EU is gonna throw in the face of everything they don't like, with good merits or not, long term this is gonna help the EU as much as paying the mafia to not break into your shop.
- BossingAround 2y agoAds do not encourage more use, they do the opposite - annoy users into closing the app. Teens do not need encouragement to spend more time on TikTok than they already do.
- yard2010 2y agoNah the EU stays the western world babysitter. And let's be honest, the US doesn't make it easy for them.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoIt’s somewhat humorous that the US is the military world police while Europe is the regulatory police. Spider-Man pointing meme.
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