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(see also: misguided attempts to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act)
Revealed Facebook whistleblower behind WSJ stories @[email protected] points stripping Facebook of content liability protections won't address the issue. Instead, Facebook must stop promoting content based on engagement.
@[email protected] has advocated for this for a long time.
Ban #surveillance ads! Excellent campaign from the folks at #AccountableTech in the U.S. π
In the EU, too, we should protect people & society against targeted manipulation. #DSADoneRight #DSA #DigitalServicesAct
As if sellers were unable to set up websites.
Or as if online communication can't be peer-to-peer or self-hosted or decentralised.
Too many people have forgotten how the internet looked like before platforms. Or they never knew.
It's hard to take the @EU_Commission's attempt to regulate #BigTech with the #DMA seriously when at the same time they let its power grow even further by approving the #Google #Fitbit merger.
Via @privacyint https://www.privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/4351/press-release-european-commission-green-lights-google-and-fitbit-merger-game
#DSADoneRight #privacy
Today, the European Commission has concluded its Phase II in-depth review of the proposed acquisition of the health and fitness tracker Fitbit by Google, deciding that the merger can go through.
I've written an opinion piece for #Reuters Foundation about what legislators should do to help turn the internet into a place for people.
For @edri I have written a quick summary of the #DSA reports voted last night.
tl;dr They are pretty good but MEPs will need to work hard to protect their pro-user and pro-fundamental rights approach against the upcoming lobbying backlash.
https://edri.org/our-work/how-the-parliament-stakes-out-its-dsa-position #DSADoneRight #digitalrights #DigitalServicesAct
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Jan Penfrat
