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China's Douyin 🇨🇳, #TikTok's counterpart, limits teens to 40 mins/day & mandates real-name IDs! ByteDance aims to curb addiction but sparks privacy debates 🤔. Stricter than TikTok's 60-min limit for U.S. teens. What’s the trade-off? 🌐 #TechRegulation #PrivacyMatters #SocialMedia #oldnewz

technologyreview.com/2023/03/0

MIT Technology Review · How China takes extreme measures to keep teens off TikTokBy Zeyi Yang
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@norightturnnz
> Will Labour take on the oligarchs?

I very much hope so, but David Parker is dead wrong when he says;

"... we in the west have made a fundamental error in providing what is in effect an exclusion of liability for third party content."

I suggest reading some of the pieces Mike Masnick has published in defence of #Section230, the US equivalent of the limited liability for third-party content that Parker proposes to abolish;

techdirt.com/tag/section-230/

Techdirtsection 230 – TechdirtPosts about section 230 written by Mike Masnick, jmiers230, Leigh Beadon, and Cathy Gellis