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Words don’t have meanings. Meanings have words.

Amazon the internet megastore allows non-employees of Amazon to add content to their store. Both as supposed vendors offering goods for services and as customers giving reviews and ratings to such store listings. And Amazon chooses what listings to show to users through opaque algorithms.

Can you give an example of the sort of regulation a social media site should need to follow which Amazon should be exempt from? Or the sort of rule that should bind reddit and Facebook but not Amazon?

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tyler@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Can you give an example of the sort of regulation a social media site should need to follow which Amazon should be exempt from? Or the sort of rule that should bind reddit and Facebook but not Amazon?

A better question is what sort of legislation should apply to every website on the planet, without exception. Because that’s what the current definition does, makes the law so broad as to be pointless. Why are laws being passed that affect every website, when the problem is a few very massive websites.

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- DomeGuy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  A better question is what sort of legislation should apply to every website on the planet, without exception.
  
  Off the top of my head:
  
  Do not store user information in an unsecure or identifiable mechanism.
  
  Be transparent as to what parts of the page are ads and which aren’t.
  
  Follow best-practices for accessibility.
  
  Give @DomeGuy a lollipop if he asks.
  
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