@EU_Commission Great news for a Great ambition

@EU_Commission great to hear, and about time.

@EU_Commission We've not experienced the hate because we can block or mute before it gets that far. And because legalising cannabis is a popular cause.

@EU_Commission thankfully Europa is on the right track to prevent abuse from these algorithms

@EU_Commission this reminds me of a project from 2016 by @vecna@twitter.com , called "facebook.tracking.exposed" #fbtrex or simply "tracking.exposed".

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@EU_Commission great! We urgently need more #rulez and more #BS on #digitalization

@EU_Commission I don’t like an #Algorithm deciding for me what I will see online. 🤔 I think it’s also not good to see only exactly what you like. It narrows your #Mind Puts you finally inside an #ArtificialBubble not representing the world around us. And killing all kind of discussions. Luckily it seems that #Mastodon doesn’t have such an algorithm “yet”.

@EU_Commission the algorithm. in twitter has definitely changed in what is is promoting and what is not promoting.

@EU_Commission chère commission européenne. Question simple: pourquoi parlez-nous anglais? Le Royaume « Uni » nous a quitté, ne reste plus que l’Irlande à parler ce sabir. Question complémentaire: quelle est la langue officielle de l‘Union Européenne? Merci!

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Transparency and accountability?!?! No wonder the UK did a Brexit.

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Have to be very careful about discerning the difference between "misinformation" and free speech. What one person considers misinformation, another might feel is factual truth. You don't want another Twitter that targeted conservatives and censored accordingly.

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@EU_Commission we love us someone to decide for us the truth. Else we might see the truth by mistake.

@EU_Commission Without fools there would not be wisdom.

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Randy Farmer co-wrote a great book (in 2010, long before this wave of social media) that addresses this directly. Short answer: trolls and bad actors will (almost) always find a way to work around algorithms. (Especially if we open source or publish our algos.) They are as smart as we are, and more motivated. So some human moderation seems necessary.

https://www.amazon.com/Building-Reputation-Systems-Randy-Farmer/dp/059615979X

@EU_Commission quite right. I'm sick of right wing ghouls appearing on my timeline rather than the people I have chosen to follow.

@EU_Commission It's a good example of the efforts the EU makes to be at the forefront of regulation of new technologies.

I wonder whether there is a more philosophical point, which is that rules based institutions are inherently more likely to appreciate the freedoms that derive from a rules based system?

@EU_Commission Time and date. No need for a more complicated feed algo.

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ppl should be able to choose what algorithms affect their feed with full transparency of what those effects are and how they impact their experience.

most importantly, ppl should be able to opt out of ANY kind of algorithmic manipulation of their feed, relying instead on their own filters and block lists.