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sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Meta wants a child safety bill rewritten to shield it from lawsuits over harm to kids

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Meta wants a child safety bill rewritten to shield it from lawsuits over harm to kids

www.techspot.com

sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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The proposal comes as lawmakers and courts increasingly scrutinize how social media platforms are designed and used by minors. Features such as infinite scrolling, activity notifications, and...
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    🧑‍⚖️: “But what if your best revenuing content creators are children?”
    🤓: “That’s why I need you to rewrite it.”
    👶🧒: “Wait… wat?!”

    🤓: “Don’t worry. I’ll protect you guys.”

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    “We want this child safety bill to protect our corporation from children please” is such a good look

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    Legislators: “and we just have to pass it guys, sorry. No choice in the meter. They propose it, we pass it for them. That’s how this all works”

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    Laws to allow companies to permanently fuck up our children…

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    Mafia lobbies to get criminal law to be rewritten to remove punishments for crimes.

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    They want to get products in the hands of very young children to create customers for life.

    This is the happy meal strategy on steroids.

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    They’ll get it too as long as they push it through before the midterms, maybe even after depending on what those look like

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    In a just world, even asking for this would be a death sentence for a company.

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    What an odd thing to want.

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      Almost like they don’t give a shit if they harm kids

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        Or know that they already have harmed kids.

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          I’m sure this is partially what these ID laws are about, they know their product is harmful to not just kids but EVERYONE, but they don’t want EVERYONE to stop using it, so what’s the answer? Ban the kids

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        It’s either kids or profits for Zuck. Which is more important?

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          insert small mexican girl meme

          Why not both?

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        Almost like they want to profit by harming kids.

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    How about just fix your god damn product so people won’t constantly sue you? Business nowadays is just completely asinine

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      Won’t somebody think of the shareholders?

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      At a certain size of a company, law suits are just the cost of doing business.

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    That’s who knew Zuck was a nonce /s

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      he was at a dinner with the other NONCEs

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    Almost as if the real goal is not protecting children, but surveillance.

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    We are merely the vessel with which to produce harm.

    Facefuck, 2026.

    • 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.works
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      Only if they would use a neutral algorithm that shows sequentially things from your friend list.

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    Why won’t they please think of the children!?

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    Let’s just make brutal fucking murder and large theft legal already! /s

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