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It's really interesting to imagine what might happen if people had a legal right to filter their own digital experience without retaliation. Sure, it might dee
by Terr_ 2y ago
It's really interesting to imagine what might happen if people had a legal right to filter their own digital experience without retaliation.
Sure, it might deepen some echo-chambers, but it also might curb the worst excesses of the advertisement/spyware economy.
- Terr_ 2y agoP.S.: Some implicit aspects: 1. It would be something you can easily to assert to stop dumb lawsuits quickly without expense. 2. You can't blindly sign it away through click-wrap agreements. 3. It extends to helping others with the creation/sale of filtering tools, unofficial patches, and jailbreaks.
- Spivak 2y agoIsn't this the dream of bluesky?
- Terr_ 2y agoI don't think so: A federated network of social-media mini-sites doesn't really relate to things like blocking ads in your browser, automatically filtering out sections of radio/podcasts in your car that happen to contain siren noises, or a parent putting up barriers to adult content on a device.
- Spivak 2y agoAre web not taking about being able to curate/moderate/filter your own feeds? Because one of Bluesky's goals is to have 3rd party filtering and moderation.