Comment on Their kids died after buying drugs on Snapchat. Now the parents are suing

MYCOOLNEJM@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• phx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Except for

  Even after she created her own account and found her son’s dealer posting images with hundreds of pills, Mendoza’s reports to the help center went unanswered, and it took eight months for them to flag his account. “It was really disheartening,” she said.

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  Other problematic features include notifying individuals when another person screenshots their post, the ability to geolocate fellow users and algorithms that suggest new connections based on demographics.

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  • MYCOOLNEJM@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “I will ask snapchat to stop doing bad things, but I will not delete their app from my kids smartphone. It’s their responsibility, not mine”

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  • EssentialCoffee@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wait, so the parent knew about this issue for over eight months and did nothing to actually get their kid help?

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    • phx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Who said they didn’t?

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      • dangblingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The fact that they still allowed their kid to have access to the drug dealing app/device that has the drug dealing app on it.

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  • dangblingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That doesn’t absolve Google or Apple for facilitating the download of the app where drug dealers frolic.

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• howlingecko@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Perhaps SnapChat files a counter suit on the parents for buying their kid a smartphone, paying for service, and not putting parental controls on the device to keep them from using apps that they don’t want their kid accessing

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  • Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Google parental controls shut down automatically after a certain age.

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  • dangblingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not much of a counter suit. It’s legal to buy your kid a smartphone and it’s legal to not put parental controls on it.

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