41 states sue Meta, claiming Instagram, Facebook are addictive, harm kids::undefined
They’re addictive and harmful to adults too. Purposefully mind you.
I don’t think 41 states realise that kids wouldn’t touch Facebook if you forced them. Instagram on the other hand…
What do you think of Pixelfed?
The next thing people will hate as soon as it gets popular enough.
probably less addictive though, due to no algorithm that pushes things to make you keep scrolling. and of course no ads.
… Yet
there’s almost a thousand Pixelfed instances at the moment, as far as I know none of them being owned by a for-profit company. would be pretty difficult to convince all the admins to start running ads on theirs.
Ughh, so exhausting. Im so goddamn tired of social media and all this stuff. Soon imma take a digital retreat. Only streaming on the silver screen
I wonder why these states are passing the blame onto social media companies, and not looking at their own policies that allow their school districts to use these platforms as a primary communication tool for students and parents. My kids school uses instagram to notify students for updates on making athletic teams or other important school activities that require an account on those same platforms. Are they not in turn encouraging that addictive behavior? I’ve spent countless hours trying to keep my kids off those platforms only to be met with schools that practically force parents to give their kids access so they can receive those communications. My kids school website still has fb and insta in its mast head…sigh.
I even ran into this in college they communicated hours for everything etc via Instagram so I pretty much relied on friends to then relay that information to me. Very annoying.
But that would be infringing on the families’ freedom! Surely if we just ask the corpos politely they’ll be nice enough to stop (or nice enough to lobby them to shut up).
Which nine states don’t?
I’ve looked (though I admit, not thoroughly) and I couldn’t find one, so… Anyone got a list of said states?
Via USA Today:
Which states are filing the lawsuit against Meta?
In addition to Colorado and New York, the other states with attorneys general joining the suit are Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Nine state attorneys general in Florida, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont and the District of Columbia have filed similar lawsuits in their states.
In all, 41 states and the District of Columbia have filed suit against Meta on the issue; another state, Arkansas, in March filed suit against Meta over the addictive nature of Facebook and Instagram.
Honestly kind of surprised California is on the list.
How many of these states allow the employment of children?
