who receives (or has received) actual payments ( other than the lawyers)?
I think we need some service that is able to break this out
Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
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#72I think worse than social media nowadays is youtube shorts. That thing is so addictive to kids. I wish there was a way to delete shorts from youtube and have only long form videos available in the app.
100%, Shorts are an abomination.
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#74I’m beyond sick of how this country operates. This is small potatoes for Meta and stops the $1T+ lawsuit, which would have had an actual impact on these scumbags.
Time and time again it’s the same story: the Protestant worship of money and wealth at the expense of others. If it makes money then it’s a blessing from God, and thus cannot be evil.
Sorry, Americans, but your children will be mind raped with social media and pornography to grow the GDP. Don’t put up a fight: the government has their back. And an army.
Re: Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
#75Ok, but how the kids will recover from all this harm? Is this money gonna be used correctly for once?
Re: Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
#76Pay 25% from your 2025 profit for harming children since at least 2019 and be able to continue doing so. Sounds like a loss for society and a win for Meta.
The article outlines several changes Meta is having to implement that curbs the "and be able to continue doing so" argument a bit. That said, I wish these settlements included tobacco-esque requirements for ongoing funds to educate people. The tobacco settlement funds have been somewhat successful.
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#77Why not just ban the engagement algorithm completely. Adults are just as susceptible to addiction.
Why not just ban all non government approved speech, less we hear something that might hurt our feelings or make us engage in wrongthink.
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#78The WSJ reports: "As part of the settlement agreement, Meta will also make sweeping changes to its services, Facebook and Instagram, including implementing a default two-hour time limit on its apps for users under 18." The question is of course if these limits are enforced and if they are shared across other services.
Two hours is one hour too long if you ask me. This should be implemented also for adults. And non-avoidable.
Adults can’t decide for themselves?
Re: Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
#79I’m beyond sick of how this country operates. This is small potatoes for Meta and stops the $1T+ lawsuit, which would have had an actual impact on these scumbags. Time and time again it’s the same story: the Protestant worship of money and wealth at the expense of others. If it makes money then it’s a blessing from God, and thus cannot be evil. Sorry, Americans, but your children will be mind raped with social media…
Protestant? that's a cute misdirection
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#80So if I write a book that your kid just can't stop reading it over and over again because I deliberately made it compulsively re-readable, and then your kid develops some kind of issues because my book is so interesting to him, you can sue me and win? I don't like that idea. Personally, I value free speech more than some supposed "harms" done to children by content. Content that they can easily stop consuming by just…
Yeah, and all you perverts stop telling Grok to produce kiddie porn, because Elon is a free speech absolutist who absolutely believes in his own free speech, and your own personal responsibility to close his kiddie porn generation app. So if somebody uses it to generate pictures of your children, you can easily stop consuming by just closing the app.