California bill would let parents sue social media companies for addicting kids

Re:California bill would let parents sue social media compan... by sha256sum on Thursday March 17, 2022 @06:21AM (#30709511)

>Hopefully people will soon see it's not the drugs, it's the people themselves who need to be fixed. Drugs are just a tool, and if people don't change, it will just be replaced with something else and the cycle will go on and on.

Easy way to shift the blame if one has ever taken part in designing these products.

Hell I remember years ago on HN when that book about getting people hooked/addicted to an app was a popular book to discuss, making the analogy more true.

You’re right, maybe people are the problem. Just like how the Sacklers pushes their wares and hooked the masses so did SV

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Re:California bill would let parents sue social media compan... by can16358p on Thursday March 17, 2022 @10:43AM (#30711725)

Well, yeah drugs aren't the problem. Same analogy applies to drugs, "addictive" apps or anything that one may call addictive in any sense.

In the end it's the people who use them, you can't blame the creator of them as long as they don't lie about the product.

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Re:California bill would let parents sue social media compan... by s1artibartfast on Thursday March 17, 2022 @10:27AM (#30711554)

The opiate crisis is also largely a people problem. What the sackler's did was bad but it would have happened without them.

Like in this case, some reasonable regulations may help, but won't solve the problem

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