Re: How would "algorithmic choice" laws/regulations impact ActivityPub?

Apologies, I should have said regulation, not "law"

On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 8:07 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Il 20/01/25 14:51, Matthew Terenzio ha scritto:
> > Does EU require the platform to offer third party moderation choices as
> the
> > Missouri law requires? I think that's what makes it difficult to execute.
>
> There is no "Missouri law", just a vague promise of potential future
> regulation. If a law for "algorithmic choice" emerges, it will probably
> end up being similar to the EU's. (In any case, EU legislation affects
> many more people and is already in force, so it's best to start there.)
>
> As for the press release you mention, it doesn't seem to have anything
> to do with "algorithmic choice" at all: it says things such as «Users
> are provided with a choice screen upon account activation and at least
> every 6 months thereafter that gives them the opportunity to choose
> among competing content moderators».
>
> The fediverse already satifies this: the "competing content moderators"
> are the different fediverse instances. People regularly change instances
> when they dislike the moderation decisions of their own instance. I
> believe recent Mastodon releases even provide regular reminders that you
> can move to a different instance (every time there's a new moderation
> decision which affects your followers/follows). Some fediverse apps
> default to account creation on a specific instance, so that "ballot
> screen" option isn't satisfied at the moment, but then I'll be very
> surprised if it survives lobbying by Facebook et al.
>
> Federico
>