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Great. About 10 years too late but better than nothing. Hope it becomes the global norm. Once that’s done we should ban the over the 65+.

dist-epoch 9mo ago
Yeah. We need to introduce social-media literacy tests that certify that you are capable of being a good valuable citizen on social media instead of a disinformation sharer and slop consumer.
- amelius 9mo ago
  Maybe we can also introduce an informedness test for voters while we're at it.
- chrisjj 9mo ago
  > We need to introduce social-media literacy tests that certify that you are capable of being a good valuable citizen on social media instead of a propaganda sharer and slop consumer. ... and force it first on Zuckerberg, Musk ... and Trump.
energy123 9mo ago
I want to see regulation of the algorithm. Something like forcing a chronological feed, or somehow nerfing the recommendation engine. Figure out a way to make it boring, bypass the whole censorship debate.
- andy81 9mo ago
  There are more options - Banning advertising targeted at the user rather than the context Enforcing Do Not Track Enforcing GDPR (especially sites that use cookie banners)
wronex 9mo ago
I think the opposite is in order. Ban phones with screens for those over 18 (driving limit). Phones are a drug that people cannot seem to let go off. Even when driving. Kids don’t have cars. Perhaps a trade? A phone or a car?
Der_Einzige 9mo ago
I'll accept it when we can ban bootlickers off of HN.
jacquesm 9mo ago
Oh no! But yes, you are right, the elderly are very susceptible to really bad social media influence. Drawing that to its ultimate conclusion: people are very susceptible to being influenced and social media may well turn out to be a net negative.
lossyalgo 9mo ago
Not great, because they promise to delete our IDs but don't, and get hacked (see Discord hack from a few months ago where 70k users had government IDs leaked). To reiterate what I wrote above: We need to ban addictive dark patterns on ALL platforms for ALL ages.

dist-epoch 9mo ago

Yeah. We need to introduce social-media literacy tests that certify that you are capable of being a good valuable citizen on social media instead of a disinformation sharer and slop consumer.

amelius 9mo ago
Maybe we can also introduce an informedness test for voters while we're at it.
chrisjj 9mo ago
> We need to introduce social-media literacy tests that certify that you are capable of being a good valuable citizen on social media instead of a propaganda sharer and slop consumer. ... and force it first on Zuckerberg, Musk ... and Trump.

energy123 9mo ago

I want to see regulation of the algorithm. Something like forcing a chronological feed, or somehow nerfing the recommendation engine. Figure out a way to make it boring, bypass the whole censorship debate.

andy81 9mo ago
There are more options - Banning advertising targeted at the user rather than the context Enforcing Do Not Track Enforcing GDPR (especially sites that use cookie banners)

wronex 9mo ago

I think the opposite is in order. Ban phones with screens for those over 18 (driving limit). Phones are a drug that people cannot seem to let go off. Even when driving. Kids don’t have cars. Perhaps a trade? A phone or a car?

Der_Einzige 9mo ago

I'll accept it when we can ban bootlickers off of HN.

jacquesm 9mo ago

Oh no! But yes, you are right, the elderly are very susceptible to really bad social media influence. Drawing that to its ultimate conclusion: people are very susceptible to being influenced and social media may well turn out to be a net negative.

lossyalgo 9mo ago

Not great, because they promise to delete our IDs but don't, and get hacked (see Discord hack from a few months ago where 70k users had government IDs leaked). To reiterate what I wrote above: We need to ban addictive dark patterns on ALL platforms for ALL ages.