Huge support for new rules.
Poll: 82% of Ireland favours social media companies being made to stop building up data about their sexual desires/political & religious views/ethnicity/health etc, and using that data to pick what videos are shown to them.
Strong support across age, education, class, income, property ownership for rules to prevent TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, etc. from using profiling-based recommender algorithms, unless a user has asked the companies to do this.
This poll is an excellent opportunity for the Fediverse
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Research has shown that
Poll: 82% of Ireland favours social media companies being made to stop building up data about their sexual desires/political & religious views/ethnicity/health etc, and using that data to pick what videos are shown to them. \cite(research link)
Time to switch to social media that NEVER respected people from the start and never collects or uses this data in the first place.
Welcome to the world of Decentralisedd social media.
Link to a website that gives more information about the fediverse generally and allows people to sign up to the services they want.
