Too much profit in this algorithm. They will never turn this off we’ve all been victim to it in one way or the other the ” rabbit hole”

Cesspools like Meta seriously need to have much harsher penalties and sanctions for openly allowing and exposing disgusting and malicious content onto its platforms.

Ag yes, the EU; lover of corporates, disliker of its own citizens. Serious discussions needed around our future participation in the EU with the direction it seems to be headed

If tobacco didn’t exist and someone started trying to market it tomorrow it would be shut down straight away and rightly classified as hazardous. But because it does exist and has the all-powerful money invested in it you can’t outright ban it for fear of upsetting the elite, you can only try to reduce it’s market and hope it goes away,

Social Media is similar in that if someone brought out X/FB/Inst tomorrow and we know now what the effect of these platforms is going to be then most likely they would be rejected, by the citizenry anyway. But we didn’t reject them, or legislate for what powers they might have, and subsequently abuse, when they first started up, that was a job for the gov of the time. They are now multi-billion dollar industries and their power can’t be shutdown or easily controlled. They will always be steps ahead in harvesting new users no matter what rules are put in place.

The final nail in the coffin is politicians and political parties, here in Ireland and in most countries, have aligned themselves with social media because it has turned out to be great way of brainwashing the masses and winning elections. So the government(s) have no real reason to tackle this when to do so would be to their own detriment, unless we give them a reason to deal with it? They may not do brown envelopes anymore but the back-scratching corruption continues, to our detriment.

Finally, a little government like ours may not be able to bring in the necessary rules to stop social medias toxic side, but it could at first, decide to break the link between politics and social media by banning no FB pages, X profiles etc etc for parties and politicians and, at least, ending the cozy partnership they have.

We’re all fighting between us regarding immigration, and social media companies are poring billions (for real) in their profits. So now we all think that immigration is the only big important social issue in Ireland, when it’s not, it’s something that will be tackled more or less, etc, but then we will still have housing issues and health system issues. We are being played and what’s more important, a lot of us will spoil their vote because of that.

I am all for child protection. I think there needs be a redoubling of efforts. I cannot understand why the usual suspects objected to “The Sound Of Freedom”. Having said that, we need parameters and definition. What is harmful content exactly? Is the definition broad or narrow? Who exactly gets to decide? Are the adjudicators appointed or elected? A just a comment on the reporting above – we have to watch out for women and anorexia as well as men and porn. A cursory search will show that over 30% of those that watch porn are women and over 20% of those with anorexia are men. Just saying.

Will someone please think of the children!

@Daniel – that a very nasty and obvious portion of it. It’s not really that part I am talking about.