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The social media policy ratchet: How #onlinesafety measures are costing users but leaving #socialmedia companies just fine thank you. https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-social-media-policy-ratchet/

In this blog I explain how social media policy keeps failing, and why. The reason is simple: policies are dealing with the effects of the business model, not the model itself.

As Sir Patrick Vallance explains. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/systems-thinking-for-civil-servants/toolkit

Here is how we might view the Online Harms policy system. Hopefully it is entirely clear that online harms policies are nowhere near the engine producing them, and that the policies are self-reinforcing in the face of failure

I have no idea of policy advisors graphed out the Online Safety Act or the current proposals in this way. The idea is to think about what acts on what. Then policy analysts can think about what interventions might actually work.