A very interesting case with the potential to impact all search engines that provide AI summaries the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...
It won’t work, it will leave the underlying attention-driven business model intact, but bans and duty of care are what’s left when you take effective action off the table from the very start.
Professor, Political Science, Brock University
Knowledge governance, IPE, Sydney Swans tragic
Co-author, with Natasha Tusikov, The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power (Bloomsbury, 2023). Open Access.
Blayne Haggart
2. On the public side, faced with governments that refuse to take adequate steps to regulate bad-actor online companies, a desperate desire to do something, anything.
The upcoming Canadian social media ban is evidence of two things:
1. On the government side, a years-long tendency to jump on the latest new idea, which itself is evidence of a lack of government capacity to do their own research.
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