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On the radio I heard a reporter talking about things China does during school exams. Apparently all schools have exams at the same time and during that period,
by criddell 6mo ago
On the radio I heard a reporter talking about things China does during school exams. Apparently all schools have exams at the same time and during that period, social media shuts down at night. I forget the exact hours (10pm - 6am maybe). I'm starting to think that would be a great policy in general for everybody.
I think they also said AI companies go offline during exam hours, but I may have got that wrong.
- dgellow 6mo agoI can understand regulating dark/abusive patterns, but at the end of the day I should be allowed to doomscroll at night if I want to
- buellerbueller 6mo ago>I can understand regulating dark/abusive patterns, but at the end of the day I should be allowed to doomscroll at night if I [am an addict]
- dgellow 6mo agoYou don’t need to be an addict to doomscroll, drink alcohol, consume weed, etc. In free countries we generally consider it ok let you do things that aren’t necessarily good for you at large doses.
- redsocksfan45 6mo ago[dead]
- Aurornis 6mo agoAbsolutely wild that we’re seeing proposals to shut down parts of the internet and regulate when people can talk to each other on social platforms as a real suggestion on HN. I feel like we’ve completely lost the plot when we’re starting to invite government partial Internet shutdowns as a good idea. This is a totalitarian government play.
- schnitzelstoat 6mo agoI can only imagine these people have never experienced such censorship. Maybe they'll feel differently when they have to upload their ID and face scan (which later gets leaked) just to be able to read a recipe for beer or whatever.
- wackget 6mo ago[dead]
- afavour 6mo agoI think it speaks to the complete lack of government regulation in the area that people see such extreme answers as positive. If any government had seen fit to engage in light regulation of what social media can do people might be happier.
- zombot 6mo agoLight regulation won't cut it any more for companies that are too big to jail.
- achenet 6mo agoYou can always nationalize ;)
- bcjdjsndon 6mo agoIf it's so dangerous, get off social media, and get your kids off it. It's literally that simple. We don't need a nanny state telling the rest of us how to live because some scared, hysterical parents need a villain
- Aurornis 6mo agoEvidence suggests the polar opposite. Governments have been working on regulating platforms. Every time they get close, there’s outrage when people realize what it means for them. Age regulations are the best example. Every time the topic comes up there is a lot of support for government regulation of social media by age. Then every time there comes an actual attempt at government regulation or even self-regulation by the companies, everyone goes ballistic when they realize what that regulation means. This topic is awash in ideas that regulation will come in like a scalpel that only touches something that won’t affect anything we like, only hurt some companies in some specific way that doesn’t take anything away from us. This notion doesn’t survive contact with reality. That’s how we get these short sighted comments inviting the government to come shut down parts of the internet. I bet the person who asked for that assumed it would be perfectly targeted at sites they don’t need or use, leaving their version of the internet untouched. They never imagined the government might scope creep it to start shutting down communications they didn’t like.
- strathmeyer 6mo ago[dead]
- bcjdjsndon 6mo ago> I'm starting to think that would be a great policy in general for everybody. And what are these imagined ills you are curing?