The EU says Meta may not be doing enough to protect kids.
  • natarey@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    This is like an article declaring, “EU Investigates MySpace for causing child addiction and harm” – the people they’re trying to protect don’t use that product any more. The time to do this investigation was fifteen years ago, and the US government should have been the ones to do it.

    Don’t get me wrong – fuck Facebook. I hope they have to pay billions. But the people that company is harming now are adults and the elderly. I’m sure fifteen years from now, once all those people are dead, there’ll be an in-depth investigation and legislation about it.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Loads of young people use Instagram. And Messenger. And WhatsApp. Some have Threads. They own a few shitty mobile games companies.

      Then on top of that Facebook collects data for third parties too via their ad network.

      Going after Meta for this is 100% justified.