Politics around the big social media platforms

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Lots of aspects to talk about including
-privacy
-role in increasing far right voices / false news etc
-election meddling/ political control
-personal emotional impacts

etc

the pile of books and films on the topic is piling up
im rushing off to work so cant post much more now

my question is: can any of this be fixed or has the profit motive made these platforms fundamentally broken?

 

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FT headline today
France and Netherlands join forces to back EU move against tech giants Subscribe to read | Financial Times

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" Proponents of curbing the power of Big Tech argue that structural separation of big platforms would diminish their dominant position and help smaller rivals thrive. The paper urges regulators to explore measures including forcing the likes of Facebook and Apple to allow their users to take their private data to a competing platform or banning companies such as Google from promoting their own services at the expense of smaller rivals. "

...sounds shit - these are natural monopolies - everyone needs to be on it, rather than have 12 competing sites doing the same thing