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The Labor Party is expected to release legislation requiring social media companies to allow users to turn off algorithms controlling the content in their feeds (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) by Arlesh@lemmy.world to c/australianpolitics@aussie.zone

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[–] Tenderizer@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

People might not know what "algorithm" means, but they do know what "the algorithm" means.

The algorithm: Personalized recommendations over which you have opaque control.

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 1 points 55 minutes ago* (last edited 23 minutes ago) (1 children)

When ~~tracking~~ talking about legislation, being precise is important. Because as present the law is both useless and unenforceable, on top of being demagogic

Edit: thanks autocorrect that completely killed my sentence

[–] Tenderizer@aussie.zone 1 points 28 minutes ago (1 children)

The news headline is not the text of the legislation. What people understand and what's appropriate to put into legislation are two different things.

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 1 points 22 minutes ago (1 children)

But the article doesn’t give any additional info and it’s therefore only there to rile up people against “the spooky algos”

[–] Tenderizer@aussie.zone 1 points 22 minutes ago* (last edited 21 minutes ago)

Like I said, people know what "the algorithm" is and what it's not.