Re:California bill would let parents sue social media compan...
by makeitdouble on Thursday March 17, 2022 @04:43AM
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You are right, and for context that trend started decades ago in the US.
The general direction has been to let corporate roam free, and use lawsuits as the regulator for when their behavior bumps into externalities.
Of course, as a safeguard corporations will make these lawsuits look as ridiculous and frivolous as possible, argue that people are trigger happy with lawsuits, and from time to time fabricate stories to sway the opinion in the right direction.
The general direction has been to let corporate roam free, and use lawsuits as the regulator for when their behavior bumps into externalities.
Of course, as a safeguard corporations will make these lawsuits look as ridiculous and frivolous as possible, argue that people are trigger happy with lawsuits, and from time to time fabricate stories to sway the opinion in the right direction.
An example of a book about this: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo364551...
About nice heart-warming stories of frivolous lawsuits: https://web.archive.org/web/20210124041909/https://www.latim...