Meta Sued by States over Harmful Youth Marketing on Facebook, Instagram

Re:Meta Sued by States over Harmful Youth Marketing on Faceb... by thomastjeffery on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @02:56PM (#38003598)

The mistake we are making here is to draw the problem along the boundary of age.

The problem is not exclusive to children!

Even if you could successfully bar all children from participating on Facebook, the problem would still exist, and Facebook would continue to harm people.

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Re:Meta Sued by States over Harmful Youth Marketing on Faceb... by spookie on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:56PM (#38006836)

Very much true. Marketing content should be carefully vetted, filtered. Whom you wish to project that content for may want to take back control from addictions they suffer from (i.e. food).

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Re:Meta Sued by States over Harmful Youth Marketing on Faceb... by autoexec on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @08:07PM (#38007488)

Presumably adults are supposed to be old enough to know better than to use Facebook.

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Re:Meta Sued by States over Harmful Youth Marketing on Faceb... by zeroonetwothree on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @08:25PM (#38007627)

There are many things in life more harmful than Facebook that we don't ban. Just because you don't like something or it has some negatives doesn't mean it should be illegal. Indeed given that it's impossible to specifically define "social media" such a ban wouldn't even really be legally feasible given 1st amendment issues.

Now personally I don't use alcohol, don't do drugs (including caffeine), don't gamble, and barely ever use social media (except HN, my one guilty pleasure). But I still think those things should all be legal.

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