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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.

I use tools for policy planning that the government claims to use to avoid unintended consequences when dealing with complicated systems

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