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by TavsiE9s 189 days ago
Why is everyone acting surprised? We’ve had 20-ish years of social media and algorithms being forced upon everyone and everything and any fine that was handed out was essentially paid off by not even a day of revenue.

This is the result of social media companies optimising their feeds for monetisation.
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squigz 188 days ago
"We've tried nothing and it didn't work!"

The fines didn't do anything because they make too much money? Maybe... increase the fines? Maybe... don't just fine them? Maybe... fix the "algorithms being forced upon us"?

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jeroenhd 188 days ago
The algorithms are part of the EU's DSA/DMA partially because of this reason.

Too bad these laws won't be enforced properly because of things like https://www.euractiv.com/news/trump-threatens-retaliation-ag... and other geopolitical reasons.

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