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

Re:Meta Sued by States over Harmful Youth Marketing on Faceb... by yodsanklai on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:44PM (#38006729)

I'm impressed by the strong negative reactions on this thread. Maybe because this is a US-centric forum, or because I don't have kids, but I fail to see the big deal with Meta. Facebook is mostly groups with little engagements. Nowadays, people really fight on Twitter which has less moderation. Then Instagram, I thought kids were on Tik Tok?

Well, I can see how some people might be negatively impacted by this sites but it has to be marginal considering we're taking about billions of users. And what's new? the same could be said by tons of other businesses (how many people are obese with reduced life expectancy because of agressive marketing from Mac Donald's and Coca Cola for instance?). I mean, is Meta that bad?

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Re:Meta Sued by States over Harmful Youth Marketing on Faceb... by throwaway237289 on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @07:04PM (#38006905)

There's an amazing subtlety here, which is that Governments are slow to function and rarely regulate well. That they're targeting Meta instead of what kids actually use (TikTok) highlights this fact.

So not only will they fail to achieve their goal, they're not even going after the right player.

But hey the cultural movement of Americans these days are to hate on big tech, and Facebook in particular. So here we go.

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Re:Meta Sued by States over Harmful Youth Marketing on Faceb... by baby on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @07:49PM (#38007328)

What’s hilarious is that they’re going after TikTok but because it’s a national threat (lol)

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Re:Meta Sued by States over Harmful Youth Marketing on Faceb... by yodsanklai on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @08:01PM (#38007431)

> the cultural movement of Americans these days are to hate on big tech

if only we could have such giants in Europe...

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