Re: Kitemark
"Bendacious" wrote:
Companies do not voluntarily do anything except generate profit.
That may be nearly true in the USA due to the laws here that are extremely biased in the direction of corporate shareholders but it's not true a lot of other places in the world.
I agree with you that something needs to be done about the way social media essentially warps reality with how they present data to users. Finally the public is starting to wake up to this.
In the USA we can start by bringing back the Office of Technology Assessment.
This was a non-partisan government agency whose mission was to educate members of the US Congress about up and coming technology so they could be at least somewhat educated about the new issues that come up as a result, before they have to decide how to deal with them legislatively. (And hopefully before corporate lobbyists get their claws into them and brainwash them about such things)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Office_of_Technology_Assessment
Because I think one of the biggest problems is that most members of Congress are quite pathetic when it comes to understanding things like the rise of online social media until much damage has already been done.