there is more to the fediverse than mastodon.
#fediverse #hubzilla #mastodon #social-media #internet
A new article here on my Hubzilla channel, inspired also by recent events:
#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse
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by Associated Press
MELBOURNE, Australia --
How do you remove children from the harms of social media? Politically
the answer appears simple in Australia, but practically the solution
could be far more difficult.
The Australian government's plan to ban children from social media
platforms including X, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram until their 16th
birthdays is politically popular. The opposition party says it would
have done the same after winning elections due within months if the
government hadn't moved first.
The leaders of all eight Australian states and mainland territories
have unanimously backed the plan, although Tasmania, the smallest
state, would have preferred the threshold was set at 14.
But a vocal assortment of experts in the fields of technology and child
welfare have responded with alarm. More than 140 such experts signed an
open letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemning the 16-year
age limit as "too blunt an instrument to address risks effectively."
Details of what is proposed and how it will be implemented are scant.
More will be known when legislation is introduced into the Parliament
next week.
## The concerned teen
Leo Puglisi, a 17-year-old Melbourne student who founded online
streaming service 6 News Australia at the age of 11, laments that
lawmakers imposing the ban lack the perspective on social media that
young people have gained by growing up in the digital age.
"With respect to the government and prime minister, they didn't grow up
in the social media age, they're not growing up in the social media
age, and what a lot of people are failing to understand here is that,
like it or not, social media is a part of people's daily lives," Leo
said.
"It's part of their communities, it's part of work, it's part of
entertainment, it's where they watch content -- young people aren't
listening to the radio or reading newspapers or watching free-to-air TV
-- and so it can't be ignored. The reality is this ban, if implemented,
is just kicking the can down the road for when a young person goes on
social media," Leo added.
Leo has been applauded for his work online. He was a finalist in his
home state Victoria's nomination for the Young Australian of the Year
award, which will be announced in January. His nomination bid credits
his platform with "fostering a new generation of informed, critical
thinkers."
## The grieving mom-turned-activist
One of the proposal's supporters, cyber safety campaigner Sonya Ryan,
knows from personal tragedy how dangerous social media can be for
children.
Her 15-year-old daughter Carly Ryan was murdered in 2007 in South
Australia state by a 50-year-old pedophile who pretended to be a
teenager online. In a grim milestone of the digital age, Carly was the
first person in Australia to be killed by an online predator.
"Kids are being exposed to harmful pornography, they're being fed
misinformation, there are body image issues, there's sextortion, online
predators, bullying. There are so many different harms for them to try
and manage and kids just don't have the skills or the life experience
to be able to manage those well," Sonya Ryan said.
"The result of that is we're losing our kids. Not only what happened to
Carly, predatory behavior, but also we're seeing an alarming rise in
suicide of young people," she added.
Sonya Ryan is part of a group advising the government on a national
strategy to prevent and respond to child sexual abuse in Australia.
She wholeheartedly supports Australia setting the social media age
limit at 16.
"We're not going to get this perfect," she said. "We have to make sure
that there are mechanisms in place to deal with what we already have
which is an anxious generation and an addicted generation of children
to social media."
A major concern for social media users of all ages is the legislation's
potential privacy implications.
Age estimation technology has proved inaccurate, so digital
identification appears to be the most likely option for assuring a user
is at least 16.
Australia's eSafety Commissioner, an office that describes itself as
the world's first government agency dedicated to keeping people safer
online, has suggested in planning documents adopting the role of
authenticator. The government would hold the identity data and the
platforms would discover through the commissioner whether a potential
account holder was 16.
## The skeptical internet expert
Tama Leaver, professor of internet studies at Curtin University, fears
that the government will make the platforms hold the users'
identification data instead.
The government has already said the onus will be on the platforms,
rather than on children or their parents, to ensure everyone meets the
age limit.
"The worst possible outcome seems to be the one that the government may
be inadvertently pushing towards, which would be that the social media
platforms themselves would end up being the identity arbiter," Leaver
said.
"They would be the holder of identity documents which would be
absolutely terrible because they have a fairly poor track record so far
of holding on to personal data well," he added.
The platforms will have a year once the legislation has become law to
work out how the ban can be implemented.
Ryan, who divides her time between Adelaide in South Australia and Fort
Worth, Texas, said privacy concerns should not stand in the way of
removing children from social media.
"What is the cost if we don't? If we don't put the safety of our
children ahead of profit and privacy?" she asked.
#social-media #australia #internet #privacy #mental-health #kids #children #age-limit #age-verification #minimum-age
das wäre beinahe komplett an mir vorbeigerauscht. die iren scheinen anzufangen, das mit der kontrolle von musks medien und google und co ernst zu nehmen ...
Medienministerin Catherine Martin (Grüne) begrüßte den Beschluss. Der Kodex führe eine "echte Verantwortlichkeit" der betroffenen Plattformen ein. Unterfüttert sind die Vorschriften durch starke Sanktionsbefugnisse und Geldbußen von bis zu 20 Millionen Euro oder 10 Prozent des Jahresumsatzes einer Plattform, je nachdem, welcher Betrag höher ist.
Die allgemeinen Auflagen müssen die Betreiber bis zum 19. November erfüllen. Für weitreichendere Vorschriften, die Anpassung interner IT-Systeme verlangen, gilt eine Übergangsfrist bis zum 21. Juli 2025. Der vergleichsweise harsche Ansatz überrascht, da die EU-Heimat für viele Big-Tech-Konzerne diese regulatorisch bislang eher mit Samthandschuhen anfasst.
da bin ich ja mal gestpannt, was daraus wird!
#computer#internet #social-media
Social Media: Irischer Regulierer untersagt EU-weit Hass und Hetze
Die irische Medienaufsicht hat einen Online-Sicherheitskodex veröffentlicht. Er enthält strenge Vorschriften für Plattformen wie Instagram, TikTok und YouTube.
Not in my opinion, but to some it looks as though people are leaving the Fediverse in large numbers.
#fediverse #Mastodon #Diaspora #Friendica #Hubzilla #social-media #change #trends
https://technophobeconfessions.wordpress.com/2024/06/16/fediverse-trend/
‘Intelligence Updates’
Social media is a core component of the Imaginary War. Academic research shows #Twitter is home to a massive pro-Ukraine bot army, endlessly pumping out pro-Kiev, anti-Russian messaging. The same is no doubt true of every #social-media platform. This helps create the illusion of nigh-universal support for #Ukraine globally, when outside the West, populations and governments are either neutral, or outright supportive of #Russia, perceiving the conflict to be a strike against #NATO, and Western imperialism.
“This is supposed to be a David and Goliath story. But David and Goliath is a crap story if the giant wins…Predictable, a bit disheartening and not really a story at all, just the way the world works. Besides, a Western audience wants to see the good guy win, both to mete out justice and to enjoy victory by proxy. Ukraine’s anguishing self-defence is not a novel. But it’s not satisfying our fictional appetites.”
so, ich habe jetzt an den berechtigungen meines accounts herumgebastelt und versucht, likes und kommentare einzuschränken. wollte ich eigentlich nie machen, aber ich habe auch keine lust auf diesen spam. und einen account, der hier als null erscheint, ohne link zu einem profil, lässt sich auch nicht blocken. die möglichkeit interaktionen zu blocken, die von keiner erkennbaren quelle stammen, gibts hier bei #hubzilla nicht; wozu auch, die sollten eigentlich gar nicht möglich sein, wenn ich das alles richtig verstehe. letzeres ist wiederum eine möglichkeit: vielleicht verstehe ich ja etliches hier am rechtesystem falsch. ich kann das aber im moment noch nicht in eine support-verträglich frage fassen.
400 people arrested in #Russia for comments posted on #social-media
but in the #UK, last year - there were #3300 !!!
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DIl-HO9Ng3I
Crazy !!
SOCIAL MEDIA, Co-ops & I
'Even the memory of what's been lost, has been lost.' Jane Jacobs
Since I was 16 I have always been a co-op member. I have always banked at a credit union (credit unions are financial co-operatives) and have often been a member of a consumer co-operative, groceries and gas being my main purchases there. Nothing fancy like a housing, work or daycare co-op, but, co-operatives, nonetheless.
Much of Alberta's rural electrification was carried out by groups of farmers who created co-ops to string the electric lines big companies saw no profit it stringing (the whole 'last mile' problem). Yes, even redneck Alberta not only had, but still has, rural electrification Associations, many of which are co-operatives.
Alberta’s natural gas co-ops are now the world’s largest rural natural gas distribution system (https://energyrates.ca/everything-need-know-albertas-natural-gas-co-ops/).
But legislation prevents me, an urbanite, from undermining our large petrogarcs; I am forbidden from joining energy co-operatives.
Alberta has a trucking co-operative created by some trucking companies that all had the same problem of getting small amounts of goods to Alberta's smaller communities; 'lets form a co-op, we can give it all the small jobs, thus, combined, turning them into big jobs, and drive the rural highways to get goods from city to town. That's been a very successful model for years now. And we, yes, Albertans, has others, too.
Co-ops! So what, and why?
Well, basically, the money. Keep it local and keep it honest. As a member of my credit union, I am an owner, and I have shares, and votes in what happens. Unlike, say Canada's big banks - TD, BMO, etc. which pay their CEO & a few majority shareholders huge profits every year, my credit union gives annual profit to its owners, which is to say myself and all the other members. We, the owners of the credit union, don't demand 'Higher profits!' We don't bully our staff into selling more product. We don't squeeze our customers because we are they! We want a stable organization that is lending to stable people and organizations that are socially responsible - not mining companies out polluting peoples' drinking water in the 3rd World.
So, when the financial melt down happened in 2008 what did we do? Basically, got on with our lives, it didn't affect us (we were in a country that believed in regulation, so our entire banking system was insulated from the USA nonsense, but, the Credit Union was a secondary shield, we expected fiscal responsibility over profit. And we slept well in 2008.
So, in co-operatives, the owners, which is to say the users, know where the money's coming from, going to and what its doing, and most of what its doing is staying local. You want socially responsible, local finances, join a credit union and as many co-operatives as you can, your money will stay as local as possible. And, of course, read more about the shining star of co-operatives the Spanish Mondragon Co-ops (link below).
Yea, but, relative to social media, what? Relative to Jane Jacobs, what?
In Canada there used to be federal support for co-operatives, for broadcasting the idea and for building them. Co-ops were seen as an important tool in the toolbox of those who would support innovative business and social justice. New housing cooperatives housed hundreds of people in many cities in Canada, existing housing co-ops still do, but CMHC, the federal organization responsible for housing, no longer supports co-op housing development. The idea of co-operatives has been waning for 50 years now.
For example, in my digging around the social media world I find what? Well, at one end, we have Mark Z. & his Facebook. He becomes fabulously wealthy, I get a social media platform (that is understaffed by underpaid workers) and advertizers get, for a price, easy access to me. Or, on the other hand, there are all the volunteer-run, non-profit platforms, TRUST CAFE/DIASPORA etc. which are add free, under-financed and volunteer-run. But there are no co-operative social media platforms wherein the platform is staffed, self-funded and independent. At least none that I know of.
I would say that, these days, social media has a hugely important role to play in our lives and in the world. Social media is too important to hand off to the mercy of billionaires like Z. et al.
Also, at the other extreme, social media is too important to be run by volunteers in their free time on their servers.
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IMHO, all social media platforms should be user-owned, should be co-operatives, generating income to pay their bills, but putting anything extra put back into the platform, maybe into content creation, maybe member dividends for each member or whatever else members wish to do with their money. But the platforms should be able to pay their way in this world and their users should have control of them, both for the sake of the platform but also for the empowerment of the people themselves.
What do you think?
https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/en/about-us/
#Co-operatives, #social-media,#credit-unions,#investment
As creating extremely realistic fake photos and AI-written text has become easy and free, social media companies have quietly replaced human users with fictional users. Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have admitted that most of their users are not actually human beings. Musk explained that "Artificial users are much easier to please, and they love to watch ads!" Zuckerberg pointed out that "Artificial users don't violate copyright, post porn, or start fights. They're wonderful. I can't believe that we didn't think of this sooner."
When asked if advertisers will be upset about this, Zuckerberg replied, "Why should they? Artificial people buy things. They're actually better at ordering online than humans. And you can cheat them by not sending them what they ordered. They can't complain to the police and courts; legally, they aren't even people. Merchants can sell the same goods again and again. They can even sell fictional goods. Where do we get the money our artificial people spend? Easy. From advertisers, of course."
Musk pointed out that "You can't violate the privacy of an artificial person. They have no right to privacy; they have no rights at all! They don't exist."
#internet #advertising #big-tech #social-media #business #capitalism #social-media #innovation #artificial-intelligence #ai #fakes #deep-fakes #finsta #fake-accounts #chatgpt
Chats, Textnachrichten, Videos: Bei Ermittlungen werden in den USA immer wieder Tech-Unternehmen angefragt, Informationen auszuhändigen. Was bedeutet das für die Nutzer?
Bei einem Verdacht auf ein Verbrechen können die Strafverfolgungsbehörden in den USA fast alles bekommen, erklärt Rachel Cohen, Reporterin bei Vox News im Interview bei NPR: "Es gibt nur wenig, was sie nicht bekommen, wenn sie dafür zu Google oder Social Media Unternehmen gehen!" (weiter)
Meine Meinung: Leider war genau so eine Entwicklung zu erwarten. Und auch hier in Europa wo wir einen besseren Datenschutz etc. haben werden die Begehrlichkeiten seitens staatlicher Stellen weiter wachsen. Dagegen hilft zum einen Datensparsamkeit der entsprechenden Plattformen, zum anderen starke Verschlüsselung und Zugriffsbeschränkungen. Gerade bei den letzten beiden Punkten sind wir auch im Fediverse nicht bereit. Außerdem hinterlasen wir überall Datenspuren. Z. B. wenn wir die Kalenderfunktion des Smartphones benutzen und diese nicht vollkommen offline arbeitet. Aber auch bei dem Ratschlag das Handy bei bestimmten Sachen daheim zu lassen muss man vorsichtig sein, den es gibt auch darüber hinaus Möglichkeiten des Trackings. Z. B. über neuere Autos, über Monats- und Jahreskarten wenn diese elektronisch überprüft werden oder über Videocams hinter denen Algorithmen sitzen um Menschen zu identifizieren und zu verfolgen.
Tags: #News #USA #Datenschutz #Datenspuren #Tech-Unternehmen #Chats #Social-Media #Videos #Textnachruchten #Europa #Gesetze #Überwachung #Tagesschau #Meinung #Sascha #2022-08-15
Räume: @FediverseDE
#politik #kultur #literatur #radio #interview #shitstorm #social-media #cancel-culture-von-rechts-bis-liberalala
Ein Gespenst geht um in Deutschland – das Gespenst des Kommunismus. Alle Mächte des Alten haben sich zu einer heiligen Hetzjagd verbündet, Julian Reichelt und Don Alphonso, Volker Beck und Marco Buschmann, deutsche Rassisten und ein liberaler Twitter-Mob, der sich in autoritären Bestrafungsfantasien ergeht.
Gegen wen? Gegen Elisa Aseva, eine Schwarze Frau, die vor 42 Jahren während der Flucht ihrer äthiopischen Eltern geboren wurde und in Deutschland aufgewachsen ist. Heute arbeitet sie in Berlin als Kellnerin und feierte vor einem Jahr ihr vielgepriesenes Debüt »Über Stunden«. Der Shitstorm im Internet hat dafür gesorgt, dass ihr – in kleiner Auflage erschienenes – Buch ausverkauft ist. Sie selbst wird hierdurch aber selbstverständlich nicht reich. Die Überstunden in der Gastronomie, die das Leben im Gentrifizierungsberlin mehr schlecht als recht finanzieren, werden also bleiben.
Die Frau wird angegriffen, weil sie es im Rahmen eines ausführlichen, klugen und nuancierten Interviews im Deutschlandradio wagte, als Lyrikerin auch ihre politische Überzeugung kundzutun: Sie glaube, »dass wir den Kommunismus haben müssen, wenn wir eine Zukunft für alle wollen«. Deutschlandradio Kultur nutzte diesen Satz unabgesprochen in den sozialen Medien. Zur Bewerbung vielleicht, weil er für den ungewöhnlichen Mut der »Selfmade-Poetin« spricht, aber sicherlich auch mit dem Kalkül des vorhersehbaren Skandals. Man setzte Frau Aseva damit also auch den massiven Angriffen mit Gewaltfantasien in den sozialen Medien aus, denen vor allem Schwarze und in diesem Fall dazu noch lohnarbeitende Frauen ausgesetzt sind, wenn sie sich in der Öffentlichkeit links positionieren.
Man sollte nun meinen, Frau Aseva hätte alle Solidarität auch von Liberalen verdient. Ganz nach dem Motto des von ihnen gern bemühten Aufklärungsphilosophen Voltaire: »Mein Herr, ich teile Ihre Meinung nicht, aber ich würde mein Leben dafür einsetzen, dass Sie sie äußern dürfen.« Tatsächlich versuchen indes gerade die, die sich ansonsten über linke »Cancel Culture« in Rage twittern, jetzt Frau Aseva zu canceln.
Die Angriffe dienen dem Zweck, einen Menschen fertigzumachen, um Tausende andere zu disziplinieren....
Die Angriffe zeichnen sich durch eine bemerkenswerte Unkenntnis der Geschichte der Arbeiter*innenbewegung und des Kommunismus aus, ebenso der Bourgeoisie als Klassenträgerin des Liberalismus. Das ist jedoch kein Wunder. Dietmar Dath hat in seinem Husarenstück »für die, denen die Welt nicht gehört«, die Klasse der Eigentumslosen gemahnt, nie zu »vergessen, dass die Besitzenden und ihre Propaganda-Abteilungen grundsätzlich keine Vorstellung von Geschichte haben und nur dann so tun, als hätten sie eine, wenn sie ihr eigenes Verschwinden im Zuge geschichtlicher Umwälzungen fürchten«.
Aber da die Eigentumslosen sowohl ihre eigene als auch die Geschichte ihrer Gegner besser kennen müssen, wenn sie ihr Schicksal überwinden wollen, sei hier noch mal daran erinnert, welche Botschaft der – des Kommunismus lebenslang unverdächtige – Thomas Mann 1944 an seine eigene Eigentümerklasse richtete. Nämlich, dass die Zukunft sich »kaum ohne kommunistische Züge vorstellen lässt; das heißt, ohne die grundlegende Idee der gemeinsamen Eigentums- und Genussrechte an den Gütern der Erde, ohne eine fortschreitende Einebnung der Klassenunterschiede, ohne das Recht auf Arbeit und die Pflicht zur Arbeit für alle«.
- https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1164402.der-fall-elissa-asesva-das-gespenst-des-kommunismus.html
Hier das Interview:
D.C. Attorney General Files Long-Anticipated Lawsuit Accusing Mark Zuckerberg of Involvement in Cambridge Analytica Scandal and 2016 Election Manipulation
ADAM KLASFELDMay 23rd, 2022
good.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was “personally involved” in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and “encouraged” the manipulation of the 2016 presidential election, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine alleged in a lawsuit filed Monday. Racine previously made such allegations late last year, when he asked a D.C. judge to add the tech billionaire to a still-pending lawsuit against Facebook.
#news #journalism #CambridgeAnalytica #Facebook #Zuckerberg #2016election #social-media #privacy #lawandcrime
Nowadays, the pressure to commodify ourselves can be seen in the obsession with influencer culture, plastic surgery, and going viral. Instead of rejecting this culture of commodification, we have actually embraced it, encouraged it, and accepted it as a part of the new normal.
#social-media #surveillance-capitalism #exploitation #consumerism
#politik #verwaltung #staat #land #kommune #social-media #netzpolitik
Stefan Brink und Clarissa Henning appellieren: Öffentliche Stellen sollten aus den vermeintlich Sozialen Medien aussteigen. Warum die nicht sozial sind, was Polizei, Kommunen und Co. stattdessen tun sollten und was das mit dem Vertrauen in mündige Bürger zu tun hat, kommentieren sie in ihrem Gastbeitrag.
#politik #krieg #ukraine #russland #eu #social-media #suchmaschinen #google
Extinguish the Flaming Social Media Trashpile!
If you can get followers to spend a little more effort - to change the thumbs-up to a heart emoji, for example - you got something like a "reaction" out of them. But the holy grail of engagement - getting a thing to "go viral" or "spread like wildfire" online - requires the equivalent of fuel, a heat source, and oxygen.
#bias #ethics #linkedin #sharing #social-media #truth
Originally posted at: https://jahangiri.us/2020/extinguish-the-flaming-social-media-trashpile/
