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A comment on Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia. Parent comment

Re:Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:21PM (#26171175)
> Are you willing to make Google 10% as effective to achieve your goal of a human-readable algorithm?

Absolutely. If it can't be done responsibly and ethically, perhaps it should not be done.

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Re:Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia by hooande on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:30PM (#26171304)
what % of people do you think would be willing to stop using search engines because they are unethical?
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Re:Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia by xemoka on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:39PM (#26171424)
To me, their response didn't seem to indicate that it should be directly decided by people. This is a consumer protection matter, and to stretch an analogy, like a list of ingredients on a consumable. Here we have these black boxes, and no list of ingredients, yet they drive and shape our world. A Person can't EVEN directly decide if they wanted to.
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