Jury signals tech titans on hook for social media addiction(techxplore.com)
32 points by Brajeshwar 18 hours ago | 7 comments
- jakeydus 17 hours ago> A jury form given to jurors asks the panel to decide whether Meta or YouTube should have known their services posed a danger to children or if they were negligent in design.
From the evidence I’ve seen Meta especially seems like they were not only negligent but malicious with regard to their users in their design decisions.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 16 hours agoIt's amazing that the tech companies have avoided a jury for so long.[-]
- tt24 15 hours agoI agree, it’s shocking that the only productive sector of society has managed to remain unmolested for this long. I’m sure it won’t last, and we’ll soon regulate it into nonexistence and turn ourselves into Western Europe.[-]
- crusty 14 hours ago'Productive' here is practically bursting from all the euphemisms it's swallowed.[-]
- whattheheckheck 12 hours agoWe dont live for the economy.
- greggoB 12 hours agoAnd what does "productive" mean to you, exactly? To most, causing eating disorders in teenage girls (Instagram), being at the root of undermining various democracies (Facebook) and having credible evidence of aiding addiction for profit (this case) against you would be a tough set of qualifiers, I'd imagine.[-]
- gzread 10 hours agoHighest revenue, probably
- dfhvneoieno 10 hours ago[dead]