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Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm
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Re: Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Is personal responsibility not a thing people care about anymore? You could say the same thing about illegal substances.
Haven’t seen anybody successfully sue a alcohol company for being addicted to booze.
You can absolutely find cases of companies getting in trouble for serving alcohol to minors. Or selling them cigarettes. Or running a secret casino/gambling business.
You cannot rely on people being responsible with substances and mechanisms that make them behave irresponsibly. That's the whole point of regulating addictive things.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Is personal responsibility not a thing people care about anymore? You could say the same thing about illegal substances.
Haven’t seen anybody successfully sue a alcohol company for being addicted to booze.
Tobacco then?
Pointing those out because in my current country (Australia), laws are being gradually introduced to - eventually - eliminate tobacco consumption.
eg plain paper packaging mandate, banning of smoking in more and more places, and potentially soon there will be banning of tobacco sales to people born before a point in time year (2005 maybe?) so they're never allowed to smoke
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#14The title is editorialized which breaks HN guidelines. But I hope you get away with it, because I'd like to see a discussion around this :)
Fwiw, title editorializing has been enforced pretty lightly for a while, you can find editorialized titles daily which I guess in turn results in more people editorializing theirs. It feels like a lost cause to even bring it up since enforcement is so haphazard.
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#15This is lame. Is an addictive algorithm an illegal substance of some sort? Is personal responsibility not a thing people care about anymore?
Would you expect a 13 year old to take personal responsibility?
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#16I hope TikTok will follow.
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#17I hope TikTok will follow.
I had zero exposure to TikTok until about 60 days or so. I started seeing a lot of content from TikTok on my regular feeds, like YouTube and a few other media sites.
I don't have any social media accounts other than this one and YouTube, so it wasnt hard to stay away from it all, but now even on my news channels I see 'everything' TikTok content seeping in, and I have to say, I really hope the content I'm seeing is a curated list of what goes on in that place because its horrendous.
They say 4chan is the cesspool of the internet but by God... I mean, I can't even begin to address all the mental issues that seem to be glorified by the platform. To these standards even a /b/ post might seem academic in nature.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Haven’t seen anybody successfully sue a alcohol company for being addicted to booze.
Tobacco then? Pointing those out because in my current country (Australia), laws are being gradually introduced to - eventually - eliminate tobacco consumption. eg plain paper packaging mandate, banning of smoking in more and more places, and potentially soon there will be banning of tobacco sales to people born before a point in time year (2005 maybe?) so they're never allowed to smoke
> potentially soon there will be banning of tobacco sales to people born before a point in time year (2005 maybe?) so they're never allowed to smoke
Minor typo: the ban will be for people born after a particular year, not before.
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#19>internal research showed that the app exacerbated mental health issues for teen girls in particular. This is twisting the truth. Specifically FB had found that for teenage girls with body image issues the ones they surveyed on average thought Instagram on average made it worse. 31% said worse, 22% said better, and 45.5% said it had no impact. For the other 11 other mental health issues they said Instagram made it be…
They are not exercising when they are viewing social media though, so there is an health implication with social media. How long before we get social media induced deep vein thrombosis? The airlines took that seriously.
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#20Have packaged food and fast food manufacturers been sued for deliberately making their products addictive, knowing full well that the addictive substances cause physical and mental harm?