Trump singed an EO that was reversed. Only one president showed interest in a law. Only one president whipped votes for that law. Only one president signed the law.
Another hilarious observation: they flippantly tell you not to put your eggs in one basket while strategizing and salivating over how to make the sole basket in which everyone must put their eggs.
> One thing that would make social media much better, is forcing providers by law to ensure everybody sees the same content.
This sounds terrible. I don't want to see the same content as everyone else. A good chunk of Youtube right now is rightwing content that I don't have to see.
You won’t. You will still see the videos from the channels you subscribed to.
It’s just that everybody subscribing to that particular channel most get the same information from it; the same videos, the same comments, the same likes/dislikes
While your scenario might make for an interesting Tom Clancy novel there's no evidence any of that is happening and no one involved in this ban with any authority is arguing that this is something they're worried about.
I agree that their example is absurd, but China has definitely used social media accounts to influence opinions on Hong Kong, Xinjiang etc. American social media companies cooperate with investigations and flagging of this propaganda. On the other hand, TikTok is almost certainly being pressured by the CCP to promote it and obfuscate any investigations.
The impact stated is wildly outsized. I read a microsoft report regarding this that was heavily touted and one of the "prime" examples given was a 1M view Twitter video.
I did, and it truly was better. Threaded forums are far better at facilitating complex discussions, organizing information, and making the information accessible. Today, most communication is happening inside the walled gardens of Facebook, Discord, etc. That information is effectively being lost rather than being neatly organized and easily searchable.
IRC, simple php forums, no TLS, easy stuff. Nowadays we're full of technology and very poor content. In no way can mastodon (mentioning because it's the defacto decentralized social media) solve that problem. It's really easy to post stuff that shouldn't be posted.
On the other hand, crappy looking forums, slow internet connection, you really had to take the time to think about what to say and mainly why say it in the first place. It was more about the content than about quantity.
Given the nature of software development and software developers, especially given American companies decide to value shareholder profits over programmer productivity, this might as well be effectively "You don't need to get vaccines, simply don't get sick from other people."
Things like this are suppose to be provenance of an organizations security engineering teams. Helping to ensure you don't ship something like this. It's also hard for them too because no one wants to force developers to re-implement already solved functionality.
Late to reply, but yeah no one is eager to do it. Unfortunately being good at security means being really good at work that is boring, tedious, and not glamorous, which also measures poorly into OKRs and other facets of shipping culture. Unless the team has really strong leadership that can get the security engineer ladders divested from the SWE/SRE ladders.
I literally just finished up writing up something that does supply chain provenance checking across 9 languages and still have a lot of edge cases to handle. It's not fun, but it's honest work.
> never met a security engineer that was eager to do that
Of course not. We do the fun parts, and write tickets to make the dev team do the boring parts that we will later complain are not implemented to the quality standard we would have reached, had we done the work. That's the deal.
I believe he might be a distant cousin. I've done some family tree searching myself and haven't found many things, since the Rainbolt side has mostly been scoundrels and vagabonds there aren't many details, but we do have a mountain that we named after ourselves after we stole it from natives.
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