California parents could soon sue for social media addiction
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Re: California parents could soon sue for social media addiction
#2I hope this might push towards more regulation in social media. There needs to be a way to turn on a chronological feed, hide likes/retweets/scores/comments, and hide all content made by people I don’t follow.
Doesn’t have to be default, but should be configurable. It’s harder and harder to participate in society without major social media tools so don’t just tell me to stop using these platforms.
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#3Why don't people take personal responsibility for things?
Why does there always have to be an option to sue someone?
Re: California parents could soon sue for social media addiction
#4Why don't people take personal responsibility for things? Why does there always have to be an option to sue someone?
When have parents ever taken responsibility for their own crappy parenting?
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#5If only there was a way parents could exert some sort of influence or authority over these children to prevent what they believe is harmful.
We could call it “parenting”.
Re: California parents could soon sue for social media addiction
#6Why don't people take personal responsibility for things? Why does there always have to be an option to sue someone?
See China, opium.
The core problem is:
1) We've gotten very good at making things hyper-addictive.
2) Market forces reward clicks. Without regulation, things WILL be hyper-addictive.
3) Private right-of-action is a really good way to implement regulatory frameworks; it tends to be far more efficient than DoJ or similar for these sorts of things.
Personally, I'm uninterested into being tricked into getting addicted to something. I would welcome regulation which would change those market dynamics. The older I get, the more I'd like a humane regulatory system.
Where gamification is in 2022, society will collapse if we don't get this under control. We've polarized our whole civic discourse for ad clicks.
Re: California parents could soon sue for social media addiction
#7I hope this might push towards more regulation in social media. There needs to be a way to turn on a chronological feed, hide likes/retweets/scores/comments, and hide all content made by people I don’t follow. Doesn’t have to be default, but should be configurable. It’s harder and harder to participate in society without major social media tools so don’t just tell me to stop using these platforms.
or just close the tab
Re: California parents could soon sue for social media addiction
#8I hope this might push towards more regulation in social media. There needs to be a way to turn on a chronological feed, hide likes/retweets/scores/comments, and hide all content made by people I don’t follow. Doesn’t have to be default, but should be configurable. It’s harder and harder to participate in society without major social media tools so don’t just tell me to stop using these platforms.
or just close the tab
Tell that to young children who’s brains are still developing and who don’t understand the consequences. Not every child can have a parent to teach them the rights and wrongs of the world. Sometimes policy enforcement helps situations like this. It keeps large corporations from taking advantage of our society.
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#9Is America capable of coming up with solution to anything that doesn't involve sueing?
Re: California parents could soon sue for social media addiction
#10If only there was a way parents could exert some sort of influence or authority over these children to prevent what they believe is harmful. We could call it “parenting”.
How would you do it (serious question)?
I live in US, and like China's approach on this specific issue.
1) Disallow smartphone until certain age. Which age?
2) Allow smartphone, but with parental controls. Which ones? Many of them are hackable.
3) Allow smartphone, but with time of day/week restrictions that you enforce by taking away the phone?