Politico

The fact that the Commission said TikTok should change the basic design of its service is ā€œground-breaking for the business model fueled by surveillance and advertising," said Katarzyna Szymielewicz, president of the Panoptykon Foundation, a Polish civil society group.

Honestly, I really love this idea. Itā€™s so easy to just fall into doom scrolling and go down a never-ending rabbit hole. So forcing some kind of decision-making to continue is a good idea, given some of the addiction weā€™ve seen arise from these types of apps.

Iā€™ve also been thinking defaulting to an algorithmic timeline should be nixed. If a user wants to make that decision and switch over, let ā€™em. But even on Instagram, where you have the following feed, you have to switch to it every single timeā€”that should be the default. Then you can switch to a discover feed or the algorithm or whatever if you so choose.

Or maybe Iā€™m just a weak human being with no self-control. But both could be true.