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Ryan McGrady
@antisomniac.bsky.social
The internet, Wikipedia, NYC, birds, media... Researcher at UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Media Cloud. Antisomniac here, Mastodon.social, and what's left of the bird place. Rhododendrites on Wiki, Instagram, Threads
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(8) The economic arguments. Huge number of people in the US who make a living through TikTok, or who use TikTok as an essential channel for communicating about their business. Important, but the problem is we're legislating a specific platform after it became huge. [13/15]

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[8 cont.] If we had a law which set data handling/storage requirements for all platforms (see #2), we could address the problem before it had a chance to become a major economic force. [14/15]

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Ryan McGrady
@antisomniac.bsky.social
The internet, Wikipedia, NYC, birds, media... Researcher at UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Media Cloud. Antisomniac here, Mastodon.social, and what's left of the bird place. Rhododendrites on Wiki, Instagram, Threads
37 followers46 following57 posts