xvxvx
9 hours ago
‘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…
aurareturn
7 hours ago
I don’t think it is the same.
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.
xtiansimon
an hour ago
> “…what kind of things a 10 year old is encountering”
10yro doesn’t know their a$$ from their elbow. They go looking for w#atEver’s and once that’s in their feed, there is no reset to that body of preferences.
Side note, I was shocked the other day when one of my Claude sessions brought up context from an unrelated chat.
aurareturn
38 minutes ago
They scroll right? If IG is showing me real violence on reels, what could they be inadvertently showing to kids?
Eddy_Viscosity2
an hour ago
> That’s been standard practice
It's still really bad and maybe this will start a precedent that can be used to disincentivize this practice more broadly.
happytoexplain
an hour ago
Normally people use this kind of comparison as evidence supporting some opinion, but you left that part out. Are you saying "Yes, Facebook is immoral like these other industries"? But then your tone doesn't fit. Or is this intended as a "whataboutism"? But then why would you include examples where regulation is strong?