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Re:California parents could soon sue for social media addiction by jquery on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @09:14PM (#31513074)
Indeed, some of the smartest individuals in the world are hyper-optimizing their products for addictive properties with multi-armed bandit optimization strategies. The average overworked parent doesn’t have a chance in comparison.

If this law isn’t perfect and has some unintended side effects, we can adjust and stay flexible.

Re:California parents could soon sue for social media addiction by 9ghgy on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:01PM (#31513897)
Hard disagree, this reeks of HN bias in my opinion in that the problem is clearly how disproportionately awesome tech and tech companies are. The problem is lazy parents. Everything described is a reasonable defense for why the product might be addictive but not for why parents are somehow unable to bar their child from it nor does it explain why parents are unwilling to take these measures. The reality from what I've seen of other parents at my children's schools is that most come at technology with the boomer mentality that treats having to learn new things as some sort of arduous feat and not a basic expectation of being a responsible caretaker.