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by bitpush 264 days ago
I don't know why you want a government agency to dictate product strategy.
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Because most products are not only shit, they're designed in such a way to be as shit as possible. Because that legitimately works.

Even if the government agency makes the worse decision possible, which they probably will, that's still an improvement, because we're completely maxed out on shit levels. That's how bad many products are today.

Really? You think government officials are best positioned to come up with next ChatGPT feature, or what how to implement authentication in a webapp?
Define best positioned?

Best positioned as in, make the most money? No, of course not.

Best positioned as in, not completely and totally fuck their users up the ass? Yes!

Look at Meta, Google, OpenAI, you fucking name it. These companies are a cancer onto humanity. They are actively making everyone's lives worse, on purpose, for the pursuit of advertiser revenue and new and innovative addiction mechanisms.

It's sort of like asking, who would you rather make your food? The government, or R.J. Reynolds?

Shockingly, the answer is the government!

From a government point of view, it makes sense to jump in when the product is a psy-ops at societal level, doesn’t it?
Because things in the State should help people, not exploit them. If the thing, in this case, a corporation, is harming people, why not force it to stop?
> If the thing, in this case, a corporation, is harming people

Having messaging feature inside an app is harming people? Have we lost all perspective?

Why stop at this? Why dont we have a dedicated device just for messaging because if you really think about it, iPhones are actively harming people.

> If the thing, in this case, a corporation, is harming people, why not force it to stop?

Lack of a messaging app is harming people? Let's be serious here.

No, the feed is harming people. Social media and the dark patterns they use to maximize engagement are harming people.
I suppose that’s because people already lost faith in the current system and where things are going as it is.
It's the European way