Seattle Public Schools sues TikTok, YouTube, Instagram over youth mental health
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#2Political grandstanding by school board members eyeing higher offices is abhorrent.
Re: Seattle Public Schools sues TikTok, YouTube, Instagram over youth mental health
#3Political grandstanding by school board members eyeing higher offices is abhorrent.
Was wondering why this made the second page
Re: Seattle Public Schools sues TikTok, YouTube, Instagram over youth mental health
#4So far, two comments saying this is grandstanding by the school board.
If you replace social media with drugs and high schoolers with homeless people, wouldn't it be more typical for people to be saying that elected officials aren't doing ANYTHING!
What's the difference?
I have read enough to know that these social media companies are employing behavioral scientists that are attempting to make their products addictive. And, I believe teenage brains are particularly succeptible. So this doesn't seem like grandstanding to me.
Re: Seattle Public Schools sues TikTok, YouTube, Instagram over youth mental health
#5Unclear why the school has standing, except they have to deal with depressed students, but doesn't everybody? Can Starbucks sue because it's become harder to find cheerful baristas?
Re: Seattle Public Schools sues TikTok, YouTube, Instagram over youth mental health
#6Unclear why the school has standing, except they have to deal with depressed students, but doesn't everybody? Can Starbucks sue because it's become harder to find cheerful baristas?
They have standing because its a statutory tort and because and to the extent thar they allege the kind of action and injury that the statute makes compensable.
You seem to be imaging the kind of analysis done for a suit that is not based on a statute providing liability, but on a conflict of laws trying to negate or enjoin a government action for violating a controlling law that does not provide a explicit right of action to the plaintiff to sue, but that’s not necessary when a statute provides an explicit cause of action.
Re: Seattle Public Schools sues TikTok, YouTube, Instagram over youth mental health
#7So far, two comments saying this is grandstanding by the school board. If you replace social media with drugs and high schoolers with homeless people, wouldn't it be more typical for people to be saying that elected officials aren't doing ANYTHING! What's the difference? I have read enough to know that these social media companies are employing behavioral scientists that are attempting to make their products addictiv…
I am not a lawyer, but this seems like the school board have no standing (in the legal sense) to be filing this lawsuit. I do not believe that social media companies have the duty of care to the school boards to maintain kids' mental health.
Some of the things in the lawsuit are just stupid like arguing that social media causes them to need to do investigations into threats and such. You wouldn't be suing the USPS or AT&T for allowing the same thing, would you? Sure these aren't the same thing as social media, but whether a duty of care exists should be a relatively similar analysis.
Re: Seattle Public Schools sues TikTok, YouTube, Instagram over youth mental health
#8Political grandstanding by school board members eyeing higher offices is abhorrent.
No grandstanding in my opinion. Social media is a very dangerous and addictive drug that is difficult to police. It should be heavily regulated as it's destroying society.
Re: Seattle Public Schools sues TikTok, YouTube, Instagram over youth mental health
#9So far, two comments saying this is grandstanding by the school board. If you replace social media with drugs and high schoolers with homeless people, wouldn't it be more typical for people to be saying that elected officials aren't doing ANYTHING! What's the difference? I have read enough to know that these social media companies are employing behavioral scientists that are attempting to make their products addictiv…
>these social media companies are employing behavioral scientists
Companies have employed behavioral scientists for at least a century now. Cigarette companies never got in trouble for hiring psychologists to devise their advertising (addiction triggers), but for the damage their products did. They could invent a new rule against exploiting human psychology but that does not have a precedent of illegality.
Re: Seattle Public Schools sues TikTok, YouTube, Instagram over youth mental health
#10Political grandstanding by school board members eyeing higher offices is abhorrent.
No grandstanding in my opinion. Social media is a very dangerous and addictive drug that is difficult to police. It should be heavily regulated as it's destroying society.
If the drug is distributed by, controlled by, the American govt using its tech companies, such a drug is fine. The moment, the control goes to Chinese, yes, it is a big NO :)