[rudolftheone]

So the master plan is to let governments (known for tech illiteracy and 20-year procurement cycles) regulate hyper-evolving social media platforms? Why teach people to think critically or resist engineered dopamine traps when we can have a bunch of career bureaucrats draft laws while using Wordpad or Internet Explorer to Google “AI” xD

[zestyping]

Regulation doesn't have to be at the level of controlling how technology is designed. It can be more creative, at the level of organizations or incentives, for example:

- Require advertising companies to follow special rules, including only doing advertising and nothing else

- Fund an agency that measures the health harms of large platforms and imposes fines or restrictions based on harm