Post by @TCatInReality@mastodon.social

2025-12-30 14:04 UTC

@thecyberwitch Now, I have tried to answer your questions earnestly. Here's my main questions: A) Do you think we have enough evidence of real world harms from techbros to start regulating the online world, or should we continue with total immunity and self-regulation? B) If we need regulation, and given this is the process that we have, do we make the best of it and continually refine (like all laws) or do we wait (if so, for what)? To me, this is a simple product safety issue. /End

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@thecyberwitch@mastodon.social 2025-12-30 14:23

@TCatInReality. social was a bad choice, character limit is killing me. 1. Refining laws retroactively after rushing them through is a bad idea in general. Bills are what should be refined. That's what they're for. Bad laws should be repealed AND replaced by better ones. 2. Regulation has the wrong target. We don't cut out the services entirely, but we minimize the data available to breach to essentials only. Zero-trust should be embraced.

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@thecyberwitch@mastodon.social 2025-12-30 14:27

@TCatInReality 2 contd. Cut the predatory AI and algorithms used on kids and adults. Engagement-based metrics are poisoning society. Enforce mandatory reporting when individuals and platforms made aware (the biggest problem in cases of online abuse in communities, and law enforcement has shrugged these cases off too much). When we have an age verification method that doesn't make the techbros an agent for governments to circumvent constitutional privacy, I will be all for it.

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@thecyberwitch@mastodon.social 2025-12-30 14:29

@TCatInReality Also, "total immunity and self regulation" hasn't existed since the mid-2000's for the surface web anyway, and I find that to be a massive mischaracterization of our current tech landscape.

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