Electronic Frontier FoundationCA lawmakers are fast-tracking A.B. 1709, a sweeping bill that would ban anyone under 16 from using social media and force every user to submit sensitive personal information before accessing social platforms. If you're a CA resident, reach out to your Senator today: https://act.eff.org/action/stop-california-s-social-media-ban-a-b-1709
Kelson
Bill Zaumen@kelson @eff The text of AB 1709, near the start, says, "social media platforms are intentionally designed to maximize user engagement through features such as algorithmic content recommendation ...." Assembly members are not programmers and are probably falling for Facebook marketing about Facebook's "algorithm", not realizing that FIFO (first in, first out) is technically an algorithm, as is long division as taught in elementary school.