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Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
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Re: Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
#92From $1.2T lawsuit, they settled for $16.6B; Meta got quite a bargain
Re: Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
#93still feels like they got away easy for raping children's minds "Meta has long argued it could not have misled consumers about whether its services were addictive because "social media addiction" is not a recognized psychiatric condition." that's a nice escape hatch, considering that they are using all the tricks in the book (from online gambling, etc) and then some
This is crazy, Meta is not solely responsible for people and kids having addiction to their phones (very similar if not identical to social media addiction). Gambling has regulations all the companies have to abide by. Social media and content platforms have nothing like that.
They profited so thoroughly from building the addiction machine that they sought to lobby for legislation that imposed restrictions on internet usage that will actively and permanently add friction to computing and make the internet as a whole less free, just to try to avoid culpability for their actions. They knew what they were building.
Re: Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
#94Anything that doesn't have Zuckerberg and the rest of the top brass in a gulag the rest of their lives doesn't go far enough.
ZUCK, PUBLIC ENEMY #1
Re: Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
#95Would be nice to be able to enable these features as an adult (stop autoplay videos and no algorithmic feed). Also, I’m surprised by the lack of enforcement to remove infinite scrolling.
Yes, and also if only I could disable shorts and the comment section in youtube.
Re: Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
#96still feels like they got away easy for raping children's minds "Meta has long argued it could not have misled consumers about whether its services were addictive because "social media addiction" is not a recognized psychiatric condition." that's a nice escape hatch, considering that they are using all the tricks in the book (from online gambling, etc) and then some
America defaults to free. That's very unsettling for those that prefer an authoritarian approach. Maybe all these state AGs knew there was a good chance of losing because the facts aren't as strong as the narrative?
> "America defaults to free. That's very unsettling for those that an authoritarian approach."
The least insane general position is to always ask "Free for who to do what?"
Freedom for you to try cocaine if you want? Ok, let's consider it, but let's have a serious discussion about public health and safety first because there are predictable public consequences to broader society.
Freedom for someone to put cocaine in your food without telling you? No, that's just actually a brain-dead, immoral position.
Re: Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
#97I 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.
Exactly. And also a way to opt-out of the comment section. It's hard for me to resist looking at the comments, and sometimes commenting.
Re: Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
#98still feels like they got away easy for raping children's minds "Meta has long argued it could not have misled consumers about whether its services were addictive because "social media addiction" is not a recognized psychiatric condition." that's a nice escape hatch, considering that they are using all the tricks in the book (from online gambling, etc) and then some
>[irreparably damaging] children's minds I’d love for someone to get me into Mark Zuckerberg’s head on why he should keep doing what he’s doing.
>They "trust me"
>Dumb fucks.
Is an attitude he never grew out of.
Re: Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
#99I am so sick of corporations getting slaps no the wrist for these heinous crimes. Why is there no fucking justice in this god damn country?
Re: Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
#1001% of their market cap. I don't think we'll see someone with a net worth of $100,000 paying only a $1000 fine for harming children.
You are absolutely right, they would commit fraud on an unprecedented level and get away with hundreds of millions!