Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds
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This is kind of like when McDonald’s was sued for making kids fat. Like yeah, it’s an unhealthy product, especially for children, so maybe they’re responsible for not properly warning people how bad it is?
But IMO, at the end of the day, it’s the parents’ responsibility to limit their kids consumption. Giving a nine year old unlimited access to YouTube and Instagram is no different than feeding them McDonald’s for every meal.
Take away the tablet and give them a damn book or something.
Hard to be excited about this when the result will be privacy invasive laws that will break the internet.
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Nice to have a legal precedent designating them as such.
I’m just deleting my comment. Yes, that’s what I was trying to say. I don’t know why it deserved downvoting but I’m bored of it.