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Meta hit with 8 lawsuits for 'exploiting young people for profit'

23 pointsby graylienalmost 3 years ago

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kwatsonafteralmost 3 years ago
Good. This is how you use the system to fight back against these platforms. Trying to pay nice with them isn&#x27;t ever going to work. Consider the Treaty of Westphalia; these platforms are effectively like little nation-states. They have complete control over their own communication space. It is very dangerous that we&#x27;ve allowed tech organizations to become this autonomous.<p>The correction comes when the software industry is regulated like other forms of skilled trade or engineering; you set a legal precedent where individuals can be held liable for the behavior of complicated systems they illicit for profit. Prior to the Internet this would have been an uncontroversial position.<p>There&#x27;s obviously a lot missing here but that&#x27;s the gist of it I think. Technology is the only (perhaps only) industry that involves, &quot;scientific work&quot; that doesn&#x27;t required public certification and it is the only industry besides advertising and war that isn&#x27;t liable to the customers it serves in a socially meaningful sense.
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