If they hate privacy, why can't we have a look at their email accounts?

ID-verified Lemmy when?

Social media have a very difficult problem to solve: the lack of consequences (due, in part, to anonymity) makes them a cesspool where people can be the absolute worse and rarely face any punishment for it.

They also have a bot problem that's also hard to solve.

We need to fight these issues and, while identifying the uses definitely helps, the loss of privacy is too big for it to be a good trade-off.

The solution is much simpler: start making these companies responsible of what happens in their grounds as soon as they grow under a certain threshold.

If your social network has more than, say, 1 million users, you are big enough to be held accountable for what happens there.

This way, you force the big ones to start worrying about what happens in their grounds while also leaving small communities (that usually lack the means to moderate 24/7 their places) untouched in the same way they are now.

Not sure how I'd will help with my dad and brother inlaw doom scrolling Facebook looking up and saying. Did you hear about

Fuck sake. :/

This guy is a dim witted product of circumstance. He is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and wait until you get a load of his 'right hand' woman. Helen McEntee. Both of them can only read from pre written cards.

When questioned on the fly, without any schooling they are both deer in headlights.

Funny how they don’t want to actually regulate the toxic algorithms then.

Please sign the petition to stop this nonsense https://bsky.app/profile/amckinstry.bsky.social/post/3mb6yzkjmas2u

And never let Simon Harris forget being called out for deliberately smearing a vulnerable minority to chase votes from the fash https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/11/04/fintan-otoole-simon-harris-is-deliberately-spreading-disinformation-on-immigration/

Are there people (people, not governmental clans representatives) who actually support this bullshit?

How 'bout they don't

Interesting that this happens in Ireland, which is known for capitulating to big tech (because they're a tax haven). Almost like this is not actually about restricting the ability of big tech to cause damage.

“Ireland to lead EU drive to kill social media.”

FTFY.

"to block anonymous ‘keyboard warriors’ from spreading hate and disinformation online."

More like to prevent alternative points of view from being expressed.

Who decides what is disinformation? When will the tabloids be forced to stop spreading hate and disinformation?

What a terrible idea