Yeah the refs clearly don’t care cause they want the sport to be self refereed.

They have refs

The definition you quoted comes from a 2010 business paper that literally states that it includes blogs. So yes, it does, because that’s where all these business and political morons got the definition.

If you create a website, then you are sharing content. And if people read that content then you have created a network. That’s the “definition” according to the government.

But that’s not what social media ever meant. Honestly I’m not going to argue this again, if you really want to see the true nexus of what social media was and is you can read my previous comments on the matter. I’m sure you can find them in my profile.

Suffice to say, social media is an incredibly narrow subset of social networks and the internet isn’t a social network though it is a “network where people are social”.

Good to know!

Oh sweet.

Well then you can drive just fine like that.

Nah, you just speed up then slam on the brakes to open it, then you can close it as you said.

I thought it was only voice though. Not screen share or chat.

Hoarse.

And by that definition you include every website on the planet. Your blog, the comment section of your local news, etc.

Just because you think that news sites comment sections aren’t included doesn’t mean that definition doesn’t include it, cause it does. That applies to that entire definition.

Can you give an example of the sort of regulation a social media site should need to follow which Amazon should be exempt from? Or the sort of rule that should bind reddit and Facebook but not Amazon?

A better question is what sort of legislation should apply to every website on the planet, without exception. Because that’s what the current definition does, makes the law so broad as to be pointless. Why are laws being passed that affect every website, when the problem is a few very massive websites.

It’s a forum. Just like all the other forums before it. It just happened to get very popular. To be clearer: if you define Reddit as social media then you are including almost every single website on the planet. It makes the definition completely pointless.

Regulations shouldn’t be defined in this way.

I’m just going to repeat myself for the hundredth time here. This is exactly what happens when you define words in such broad terms. Social media does not include things like discord. It doesn’t include Reddit, it doesn’t include Lemmy. But because so many damn people just refer to any site that they can talk with other people on as social media, it became enshrined in law and now literally every service you touch is legally defined as social media.

This is not hyperbole; with the current definitions across numerous countries, Amazon (the place where you buy things, not other services like games) is legally defined as social media.

Words mean things and when words are hijacked for other purposes it allows governments to strip away your rights without you realizing.

Air tags use UWB radio, not Bluetooth.

Simple: “do you trust Amazon to not give away private pictures of you getting home late at night or leaving early in the morning? What happens when Amazon thinks that you’ve committed a crime you know you haven’t? Your own devices will be used against you, your friends, and your family. It isn’t if, but when.”

The whatsapp check is probably so it can exfiltrate your messages.

Anyone want to take bets?

So the devs who created it can’t run an instance and it doesn’t scale properly. Yeah, I’m just gonna go out on a real short limb here and say that maybe the problem isn’t the instance.

Matrix is terrible any way you slice it.

Usenet has existed just fine for decades doing the same thing. They’ll never prosecute for downloaders, only uploaders. And encryption is just getting more and more powerful so that’s unlikely to change.

Sorry, clearly I responded too harshly. Honestly I’m just tired of the suggestions to use Matrix, when myself (and several other people I know personally) have constant issues with it. I’ve tried to use Matrix for over 3 years now and I am required to use it sometimes, but every time I’m incredibly frustrated.

I think they and the free software community are trying to put together a good solution.

I agree, and I do think we need that, but sometimes the focus should be on usability before security. I know how much that sucks, but if you look at Lemmy you see the same thing. The focus was on usability first. Security came later, because (honestly) security is kinda pointless when every user can set up their own instance and intercept any posts they want. We’ll get there eventually with security, but if people aren’t using your platform then security is pointless.