this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2023
20 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

34441 readers
260 users here now

This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.


Ask in DM before posting product reviews or ads. All such posts otherwise are subject to removal.


Rules:

1: All Lemmy rules apply

2: Do not post low effort posts

3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff

4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.

5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)

6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist

7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

The complaint, filed on Friday against Google parent company Alphabet, Facebook's Meta as well as Snap Inc and TikTok-owner ByteDance,, claimed they purposefully designed their products to hook young people to their platforms and were creating a mental health crisis.

top 2 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Hmm, that's going to be an interesting lawsuit. Designing products for kids isn't illegal. But designing products to be addictive which have damaging effects, that certainly can be made illegal.
Might result in some very specific rulings, like no infinite scrolling or no visible interaction counts.