An LA Court's ruling on Meta and Google exposes the real causes of online harms.
Engagement-driven design and data-fuelled advertising business models put people at risk.
Yet the UK government's approach to online safety has focussed on keeping kids out and locking adults in to toxic platforms.
#onlinesafety #meta #google #youtube #bigtech #socialmedia #ukpolitics #ukpol #BreakBigTech
The UK government is stuck treating the symptoms, not the root cause of online harms.
Nothing changes until we break the business model that drives hate and extremism; the harvesting of our data to maximise engagement and fuel advertising.
It's time to #BreakBigTech.
Sign and share our petition ⬇️
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/break-big-tech
#onlinesafety #meta #google #youtube #bigtech #socialmedia #ukpolitics #ukpol
Platforms like X, Facebook and Instagram harvest our personal data so that they can target us with ads. Their platforms are designed to keep us online, pushing out content that will keep us engaged. Their power to shape and control what we see online is not only harming children and adults but democracy itself. But we often feel locked in, not wanting to leave the spaces where we still have friends, family and followers. The Government says it’s holding Big Tech to account over online...
The #ukgovernment don't have a clue how to do anything properly. All they do, all they have done for many years, is TINKER. They fiddle and faff about, all in the hope of a few votes here and there.
Sum total is that anything productive or affective gets whittled away. Education, transport, health, anything.
All ruined by tinkering twits.
Services are kept going
despite the bosses
by beleagured staff.
#starmer ?
#westminster is incompetent
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