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

www.techspot.com English
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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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    • Bristlecone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

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

      • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 hours

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

        • guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1 hour

          That’s who knew Zuck was a nonce /s

          • rynn@piefed.socialEnglish
            4 hours

            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.

            • necrobius@lemmy.zipEnglish
              2 hours

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

              • squeeG@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                8 hours

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

                  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
                    2 hours

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

                  • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
                    12 hours

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

                    • gurty@lemmy.worldEnglish
                      11 hours

                      What an odd thing to want.

                        • sidebro@lemmy.zipEnglish
                          11 hours

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

                            • NM_Gringo@lemmy.worldEnglish
                              6 hours

                              Or know that they already have harmed kids.

                                • squeeG@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                                  2 hours

                                  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

                                • rayyy@piefed.socialEnglish
                                  10 hours

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

                                    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
                                      9 hours

                                      insert small mexican girl meme

                                      Why not both?

                                    • CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                                      11 hours

                                      Almost like they want to profit by harming kids.

                                  • skvlp@lemmy.wtfEnglish
                                    10 hours

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

                                    • mannycalavera@feddit.ukEnglish
                                      11 hours

                                      We are merely the vessel with which to produce harm.

                                      Facefuck, 2026.

                                        • 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                                          10 hours

                                          Only if they would use a neutral algorithm that shows sequentially things from your friend list.

                                        • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
                                          8 hours

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

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