h4ckernews (@h4ckernews@mastodon.social)
YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/912898/youtube-shorts-feed-limit-zero-minutes
#HackerNews #YouTube #Shorts #Updates #Streaming #News #SocialMedia #VideoContent
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media (@media@eicker.news)
Social media executives from Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat have been summoned to Downing Street for talks on protecting children online. The UK government is pressing platforms to take stronger action on child safety concerns. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crl11ynjyn1o #Media #SocialMedia #DataPrivacy
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fediverse (@fediverse@bark.wolp.chat)
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5832763-soldier-for-life-honors-senator-tammy-duckworth/
#USPol #Army #Social-Media
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lowyat (@lowyat@mastodon.social)
13+ Content Rating, Stricter Protections Rolling Out To Instagram Teen Accounts In Malaysia #instagram #meta #socialmedia #teenaccounts
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abcfeeds (@abcfeeds@rssfeed.media)
WA Police won't remove racist comments on its social media posts
By Mietta Adams
Racist comments are being published on WA Police social media posts with little moderation, but the force says it is not prepared to switch off comments.
#SocialMedia #Police #IndigenousAustralians #Crime #MiettaAdams
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remixtures (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
"Lots of us technologists are Tron-pilled. Back in the early days, when it wasn't clear that there was ever going to be any money in this internet thing, being Tron-pilled was pretty much the only reason to get involved with it. Sure, there were a few monsters who fell into the early internet because it offered them a chance to torment strangers at a distance, but they were vastly outnumbered by the legion of Tron-pilled nerds who wanted to make the internet better because we wanted all our normie friends to have the same kind of good time we were having.
The point of this is that there were lots of people back then who had the capacity to imagine the kind of gross stuff that Zuckerberg, Musk, and innumerable other scammers, hustlers and creeps got up to on the web. The thing that distinguished these monsters wasn't their genius – it was their callousness. When we brainstormed ways to break the internet, we felt scared and were inspired to try to save it. When they brainstormed ways to break the internet, they created pitch-decks.
And still: the old web was good in so many ways for so long. The Tron-pilled amongst us held the line. When we build a new, good, post-American internet, we're going to need a multitude of Tron-pilled technologists, old and young, who build, maintain – and, above all, defend it."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/11/obvious-terrible-ideas/
#Dotcoms #Google #DontBeEvil #OpenWeb #SocialMedia
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popsicles (@popsicles@mstdn.social)
Popsicles Links
https://linktr.ee/itspopsicles
#Popsicles #Fyp #Foryou #SocialMedia #Community
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EdwinG (@EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca)
Content warning:Canadian politics 🇨🇦: Social media / Politique canadienne 🇨🇦: Médias sociaux
Canadian government considering social media ban for kids
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/04/15/ottawa-very-seriously-considering-social-media-ban-for-kids-minister-says/
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Le gouvernement canadien considère une interdictions des médias sociaux pour les enfants
#Canada #CANpoli #CDNpoli #SocialMedia #MédiasSociaux #RéseauxSociaux
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w (@w@communitymedia.video)
How Capitalism Ruined The Internet
https://communitymedia.video/w/eD8s9ZSsZ4HU8ieq5tuTww
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cbchealth_mirror (@cbchealth_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net)
Ottawa 'very seriously' considering age restrictions for social media, AI chatbots
The federal heritage minister says the government is "very seriously" considering whether to restrict young Canadians' access to social media platforms and artificial intelligence chatbots — but hasn't reached a decision yet.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/social-media-ai-minimum-age-9.7164902?cmp=rss
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cbclondon_mirror (@cbclondon_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net)
Ottawa 'very seriously' considering age restrictions for social media, AI chatbots
The federal heritage minister says the government is "very seriously" considering whether to restrict young Canadians' access to social media platforms and artificial intelligence chatbots — but hasn't reached a decision yet.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/social-media-ai-minimum-age-9.7164902?cmp=rss
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medien (@medien@mastodon.social)
»Feed und Fudder Podcast 80 – Social Media Trends 2026« https://allsocial.de/content/social-media-trends-2026-was-wirklich-auf-der-konferenz-zaehlt-zwischen-mut-ki-und-echter-aufmerksamkeit?Multiplikator.in #Medien #SocialMedia
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