cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/12699069
Instagram and Facebook under EU investigation for causing child addiction and harm
Wild that EU needs to do this. Where’s the US in all this? The company is even based there.
Instagram and Facebook under EU investigation for causing child addiction and harm
Submitted 6 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
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themurphy@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Children in wombs can’t use Facebook or Instagram. Those are the only children we care about here.
Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 6 months ago
Children in wombs can’t use Facebook or Instagram [yet]
JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is the real answer.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The US (well, at least our legislators) are getting paid a lot of money to look the other way, and couldn’t care less how children are affected.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Well, the endgame of that radicalization will be hangman’s nooses being put up in the Capitol, last time the people putting it up were too stupid and led by a moron, but if they let it continue, someone half competent might try to come at them as well. They don’t live that far away from society that if they let it catch fire, they won’t get burned.
mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Why would the US be involved? It’s not like Meta is Chinese or pro-Palestinian.
0x0@programming.dev 6 months ago
Never the parents’ fault, eh?
TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Lol, good luck trying to control everything around your child and what it consumes as a parent. Pretty much impossible, especially nowadays.
0x0@programming.dev 6 months ago
So just say Fuck it, everyone else can do it instead… and then moan about your children being addicted?
I’m not excusing Meta here, but parents should definitely not be excused of the responsibility or raising their kids.
obinice@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s pretty much the definition of the job of parent. To control everything around the child and how they interact with things.
It’s not any more difficult than it ever was. For one thing, don’t give kids a smartphone until they’re at least 13, they have no need for one before then.
Similarly, up to that age, they should be taught how to use a computer and the internet, but only in a closely monitored, safe manner.
After 13 or there abouts, they are given more freedom and more responsibility to go along with it, and hopefully have been raised well enough to respect that.
From there, limitations and guide rails will remain in place, be it a traditional curfew in the evening, or a limitation of “screen time”, and if course of what the children interact with online.
Greater autonomy is earned through positive actions and mutual respect, too. Over time as they approach adulthood you will be able to loosen restrictions and worry less, as the strong person you’ve helped raise will be able to make their own decisions with greater confidence and more positive outcomes.
Mistakes will be made on all sides along the way, there will be joy, sorrow, anger, love, parenting is a learning experience for all parties, but in the end, if all goes well, you’ll have a well adjusted young adult who isn’t addicted to their mobile phone or any of the apps contained within, who understands the dangers of such things, and how easily addictions and a warping of reality within the mind can set in.
Eventually you have to let go, let them be adults and make their own decisions, but by then they’ll have this deep understanding of the dangers they face, and that’s the best defence they can have.
It still might not be enough, but all you can do as a parent is try to prepare them, from then on they have to make their own mistakes, you know?
Anyway yeah, that’s how I think about it :-)
tabular@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Stack overflow error on recursive function “blame parents” at line 1.
Grangle1@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The eternal excuse of those who profit or benefit from children getting involved in things they shouldn’t.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You’re really going to tell us that you’ve never done something you parents told you not to?
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hard downvote.
This is an institutional problem, not an individual one.
FB markets its platform as safe and respectful of security, but it’s exactly the opposite on both fronts and that is a proven fact. It’s deliberately addictive, has led to widespread radicalization and mental illness in its users, and steals people’s personal information.
It’s the digital equivalent of marketing cigarettes to kids, only more harmful.
FB absolutely needs to be investigated and held accountable.
jas0n@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Facebook is almost more effective on adults. So whether or not you’re right here is so ridiculously beyond the point anymore. They’ve lost all credibility and should be indefensible.
0x0@programming.dev 6 months ago
They did and should indeed.
natarey@lemmy.world 6 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.
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Literally every teenager at my school uses Instagram, kids do use Instagram still
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 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.
natarey@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Justified? Absolutely. Timely? Hardly.
My point was it’s more than a decade too late, and all the EU will do is levy a minor fine that Meta won’t even blink at. The only country that could impose real consequences is the US, and they have no interest in anything that doesn’t benefit these nightmare cyberpunk megacorps.
Numenor@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I know, I’m addicted to children and harm now.
Allero@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Completely off-topic but…do you see the link picture as shaking?
For me it dances HARD and is very snappy. I wonder if it’s me, my sleep deprivation or actually an illusion
RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Yeah, I do. But I’m extremely tired as well so I’m not a good comparison
Allero@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Interesting. It almost doesn’t happen after I rested well
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I hope they’ll get investigated for boomer radicalization next.
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
I lost both mother and father for conspiracy theories. Unfortunately no way back . They are totally brainwashed
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 6 months ago
there’s still a way back! …elpais.com/…/deactivating-facebook-for-just-a-fe…
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sorry for your loss.
They will now be part of the boomers being fools community.
Nommer@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Got into a huge argument with my dad and almost lost all contact with him from right wing brainwashing. We’re good now but it’s scarry just how far the right will go to twar families apart to get what they want. I hope every last GOP member burned a slow painful death.