markmcan.bsky.social

What you refuse to accept is that you cannot just "ban algorithms" tho. Any attempt would be laughed out of court, with tech companies laughing loudest.

If your goal is to ban certain SM apps or services, then call for it.

That at least is possible. Banning ever-changing lines of code is not

Seems to be a theme bsky.app/profile/mark...

Friends and I tried the UK citizenship test. All Brits since birth, more than half with degrees.

Only 2 in 10 of us passed - and those 2 didn't have degrees either, they're just good at quizzes

Yes, you did. You once again laid out your unshakable belief that a government can just "ban the algorithm", despite being shown many reasons why that isn't remotely plausible.

All of which you brushed off without even acknowledging, let alone rebutting.

Feel free to seek a second opinion

Believe whatever you like. Seems to be the pattern

Governments don't need to work out laws, okay

*Stares in Manc, Cockney, Geordie, Brummie, Scots, Welsh, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Scouse, Essex, and another 40+ accents/dialects from this fair isle

I bet they just mean the posh one tho

Bet you a tenner his PIN is 1488

It's long been true, although I do think it's one thing KS himself actually has the measure of.

Perhaps to the detriment of his attention to domestic issues

"Invalid handle"?

soz lads but if you're still on X you're feeding into Musk's wealth which is being used to fund Tommy Two Names' legal fees, and if you still continue using X, you're fine with that

Time magazine cover of a horned scrotum in a red tie

Just me?

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" - H L Mencken

Imagine actually trying to ban an algorithm.

How would you word that law?

To what coding, exactly, would it apply?

How would you check and enforce it?

What if the same algo is used elsewhere for something else?

What if they change it by just one line, making it no longer the same algorithm?

At no point have I said no things can be banned. Please don't put words in my mouth.

What I've said is that "banning the algorithm" is not a feasible proposition, legally or technically.

Change one line, you have a new algorithm. Then what? Ban all algorithms?

As I said, you may as well ban maths

Echo chambers are because of user choices, not algorithms.

Do you want to see a swarm of fascist bot accounts constantly clogging up your feed, or do you prefer being able to choose what you follow?

If the latter, then you're creating your own personalised echo chamber.

As do we all

Better than attempting to ban what cannot be banned www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/08/...

The only way to not have echo chambers would be if it showed you every post, by everyone and everything, regardless of whether you follow them or not.

On Xhitter alone, that would mean you receive about 6000 tweets per second.

Literally nobody wants that

Has this been shut down? Not seeing it any more

Germany tightens online hate speech rules to make platforms send reports straight to the feds | TechCrunch While a French online hate speech law has just been derailed by the country's top constitutional authority on freedom of expression grounds, Germany is

Unusable is a bad thing, yes.

Without algos, it would just show you every post by anything you follow, as they appear, immediately.

Popularity, spam or importance would not matter, posts older than a few minutes would be buried. It would not affect echo chambers

techcrunch.com/2020/06/19/g...

Dictionary definition of Duping Delight: the pleasure of being able to manipulate someone, often made visible to others by flashing a smile at an inappropriate moment

Every time. He cant help himself

"The algorithm" is not one thing. All social media uses multiple sorting and newsfeed algorithms, otherwise you just get the "firehose"; every post shown as they appear. Unusable.

Germany's anti-nazi laws have an effect. Xhitter content has to follow unique rules in Germany. We should copy those

It's just code. You may as well try to ban maths.

It also belongs to a non-UK private company. No government can tell a company, especially in another country, how to code their product.

Even if it were somehow possible, they can just change one line and bingo: new algorithm.

Not the answer

This may cast some light on that bsky.app/profile/jame...

Not possible

Why the Labour "strategy" of chasing Reform votes is doomed to fail, explained *with the data*.

Bookmark this:

Someone needs to follow them around with a huge speaker blasting out the Laurel and Hardy theme tune. Utter clown show

Poll Q request: "Which leader and/or party would be your absolutely last choice to run the UK?"

Let's see what popular really means

Why even report this? It's not news

You want people to return to browsers, this is how you make people return to browsers