‘By allegedly targeting child users, Meta "chose to exploit" young people in order to hook them on its platforms, so it could grow its user base and expand its business.’
That’s been standard practice for many industries for decades. Fast food, junk food and soft drinks being the most obvious. Tobacco and alcohol products have had to become more covert. And don’t get me started on the porn industry…
When I’m scrolling IG, sometimes I see violence, fights, etc. I’m most definitely not someone who likes to watch this stuff, yet I get random reels sometimes showing me this category.
It makes me question what kind of things a 10 year old is encountering.
For fast food, a responsible parent can quite easily control it. So can smoking.
The big tech should not be allowed to exploit consumers and especially young children. They are the modern day tobacco companies but worse they are exploiting young people even more aggressively than tobacco companies did back in the day. They should be regulated and their power should be taken away.
That’s been standard practice for many industries for decades. Fast food, junk food and soft drinks being the most obvious. Tobacco and alcohol products have had to become more covert. And don’t get me started on the porn industry…
When I’m scrolling IG, sometimes I see violence, fights, etc. I’m most definitely not someone who likes to watch this stuff, yet I get random reels sometimes showing me this category.
It makes me question what kind of things a 10 year old is encountering.
For fast food, a responsible parent can quite easily control it. So can smoking.
I wonder how they are going to enforce this.
I meant, it would be great if this can be enforced without being yet another id verification scheme. ... but I am not optimistic on this one.