optimistically, this is the first step towards banning or at least forcing more transparency for all algorithmic feeds. there's absolutely similar concerns about the leadership of American companies being able to sway public opinion in whatever direction they choose via promotion or demotion of viewpoints. but it's only been possible to convince those with the power to stop them of the danger from China, because while probably none of the companies have "America's best interests" at heart when tuning their algorithms, it's much clearer that China has reason to actively work against American national interests (even just demoting honest critique of China is something to be wary of)
I think it would be fairly easy to find evidence of directly linked survival -> passing on risk. There haven't been so many generations with modern (cancer) medicine that you couldn't trace whether many folks getting cancer young had recent ancestors who survived getting cancer young because of modern medicine.
On the other hand, if there's significant overlap between all the historical causes of infant/small child mortality that we've eliminated over centuries, and susceptibility to early cancer, that would be much harder to identify.
Also consider he's specifically appealing to makers of premium phones - you can bet Google and Samsung care a lot about scale. And to the parent's point about the iPhone 13 mini's sales still being more than all Pixels: ok, so then consider the already much smaller Pixel market share and how many people are left at the % of iPhone sales that the mini made up.
I'd love for this to happen, signed the petition, and will hope for the best, but I think even if there would be a decent market for this the big players don't care to make that bet.
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