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    Meta und YouTube im Prozess gegen Social-Media-Sucht für haftbar erklärt

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    2. FollowingFeisty5321 on

      > In a verdict delivered on Wednesday to Judge Carolyn Kuhl, the panel of jurors found Meta and Google intentionally built addictive social media platforms that harmed the mental health of a 20-year old woman, known as Kaley.

      An amazing outcome, except for the rest of social media, the gaming industry, and the smartphone app economy that have built around making this a science. 😂

    4. gamersecret2 on

      That is a huge crack in the armor. If courts start treating addictive design like a real harm, these platforms will have to change the product, not just the PR.

    6. snn1326j on

      This is a huge, huge deal. It opens the floodgates to millions of user similar user lawsuits. For everyone saying yesterday that the NM verdict was just pennies for Meta (which I don’t agree with anyway) – this is the opposite because of the sweeping scope.

    8. Fun-Page-6211 on

      As a strong survivor of social media, this verdict encourages me. It shows that I can make my own case in the future.

    11. nokinship on

      Addiction isn’t the problem. It’s the fact it’s so cancerous. Anything can be addicting.

    12. FutureSuccess2796 on

      This is a huge win! And I can honestly say that they know what they’re doing, because Instagram (which is part of the Meta family) was the only social app I was addicted to scrolling on for a long time. Was becoming super toxic for me, so I gave it up cold turkey a month ago and never looked back. Never checked it since. I don’t miss it one bit, and I ended up limiting all other apps drastically.

    13. btoned on

      They’ll pay a fine equivalent to 0.01% of their annual net income and recoup it in about a day.

      Until ACTUAL ACTIONS are taken place this shit means nothing. These companies are worth trillions and are allowed to operate with impunity.

    15. eggpoowee on

      The moment these massive tech and social media barons are held accountable, the sooner world begins to heal

      It’s not the be all and end all, but it’s a head off a snake

    16. MBILC on

      And why they are trying to force age verification into the OS, so they can no longer get sued for things like this.

    17. MentalDisintegrat1on on

      Finally some good news.  Next hold then liable for ads and the damage they cause via fruad 

    20. AbyssWankerArtorias on

      I think the defining thing here is that the person was a minor at the time of using the services. Would it be the equivalent of a liquor store selling alcohol to a minor? Or would it be the equivalent of a Minor’s parent giving their kid alcohol / not caring that they’re using it? I’m not sure. But this seems like overreaching, honestly. I’d rather parents be encouraged to monitor their child’s online usage. This is just going to lead to online age verification becoming more prevalent which means no anonymity online, which isn’t a world I want to be in.

    21. KidKarez on

      I’ll be honest tidk how that even makes sense. Can you sue a coffee shop for giving you caffiene? Or mcdonalds for making addicting food?

    22. LuinAelin on

      Good. Should have been more

      To be honest reels and shorts need to be easily hidden. It’s so easy to scroll on those and lose time

    23. EARink0 on

      ~~Between this and environmental stuff, seems like if anyone’s gonna save us from a doomed future, its gonna be the EU. Thank fuck.~~

      I’m an idiot who doesn’t read. This was in LA. Really glad either way, even better that it’s in the same state these companies reside in.

    26. Particular_Ant_8985 on

      they shouldnt be selling all our personal information. These algorithms are so hidden and we need transparency of it. I would like to mention the role of big tech in general on this, the phone companies, the app developers who allows this just to make profit. These compnies are the new big tobacco or big oil of our age. It should be regulated same way as those or even more.

    27. kye-qatxd-9156 on

      GOOD FUCK BOTH OF EM

      I want an option to hide shorts in the app. I demand it, actually.

    28. IamMichaelBoothby on

      Good. These companies are exploiting the reward pathway in the brain, which is also what gets hijacked by drug use. 

      I am an addictions counselor.

    31. ZanzerFineSuits on

      They’ll fish for a “sympathetic” appeals court and the ruling will get thrown out.

    35. MarlinMaverick on

      I’m sure this will be good for privacy, nothing bad will come of this

    36. PrysmX on

      It was vomit-inducing listening to how many times the lawyer cited religion in the press conference after the ruling just now. This country is so fucked with being overrun by religious beliefs.

    40. BuddyMose on

      I’ve been sitting in the same irc chat room for 25 years. Let’s bring back the good old days lol. Logging on to some guys FTP server to download Duke Nukem

    41. Kyuubee on

      She testified that she became addicted to YouTube when she was 6, Instagram when she was 9, Musical.ly (now TikTok) when she was 10, and Snapchat when she was 11.

      The real problem is parents who just hand their kids an iPad and walk away. Then they turn around and blame tech companies for not raising their kids for them.

    42. CantFindtheAnswer on

      I want to be optimistic about the potential for this to cause some sort of reevaluation the way social media operates so users can have a more pleasant and overall healthy experience. But alas, I’m far from optimistic these days.

      All this does is play into the hands of regulators who have been continuously harping on the need for the internet as a whole needing be more regulated and for our privacy to be continuously assaulted.

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