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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

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.