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Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook

by Ianvdl on 5/10/24, 7:33 AM with 4 comments

• by repelsteeltje on 5/10/24, 7:56 AM

  Since this concerns section 230, this — of course — was also discussed at Techdirt.

  https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/02/was-there-a-trojan-horse...

  See also:

  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40230656

  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40238219

• by qp11 on 5/10/24, 8:15 AM

  Can be applied to Ad Blockers too.

  We need new Laws clarifying what is Attention Theft, treating Attention as a finite resource and specifying rules for Attention Allocation. Just like with Spectrum Allocation.

  Taking too long for this to happen cuz law makers are all addicted or dependent on Social Media. But as more chaos monkeys are propped up by Social Medias Attention Allocation systems pressure shall build.

• by Terr_ on 5/10/24, 7:42 AM

  That's not a way I'd expected anyone to use Section 230, but my gut reaction is that I'm all for it.

  It would take some pretty tortured reasoning from Facebook to argue that it was a hacking tool--although I wouldn't be surprised if they tried.