Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

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@nic221 there's an obvious problem with commercial social media and children are obviously falling victims to it. So much for Haidt and his critics.

I personally do not live in any of the countries that are currently banning social media, but I'm certainly doing anything I could to reduce access to social networks for my kid. This includes both restrictions and explanations at home and pushing the school to control use.

The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/18/tiktok-sale

All AI features will also be opt-in. I think there are some grey areas in what 'opt-in' means to different people (e.g. is a new toolbar button opt-in?), but the kill switch will absolutely remove all that stuff, and never show it in future. That's unambiguous.

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@mapto@qoto.org an all-too-familiar example of how a totalitarian state fails to adapt to market needs:
"This became even more of a problem when the Chinese government announced its “double reduction” policy in 2021. Designed to ease the pressure on school students, the policy banned for-profit online and offline tutoring, torpedoing a sector that had previously been a major employer of young graduates. One study suggested that 10 million people lost their jobs as a result of the policy."