Their kids died after buying drugs on Snapchat. Now the parents are suing::Suit claims app features like disappearing messages and geolocating users make kids easy targets for dealers
The night he died, Alexander had told his parents that he had been taking Oxycontin he got online, and that he wanted help. Neville and her husband immediately called a rehab facility and made plans to take him there the following day, but didn’t think to take the pills away.
Clearly Snapchats fault
isles@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Suing Snapchat won’t fix the environment that led to their daughter desiring drugs, sadly.
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Desiring drugs isn’t what killed her any more than snapchat did. She wanted drugs that were comparatively safe, and instead she got poison.
Why was somebody selling poison? Because buying drugs is illegal, and so consumer protection rules don’t apply.
The war on drugs makes drugs more dangerous. Let her go to the drug store and buy some regular-ass methylphenidate over the counter if she wants a stimulant. The pharmacist ain’t going to screw up and give her fent.
3ntranced@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Except big pharma will gouge the fuck out of any opportunity market and have people still resort to the street level junk.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I think it’s a bit easy to blame the environment when almost every kid is going to test that kind of thing at some point in their teens. Watching your children AND regulating snapchat surely can coexist
isles@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How did you come to this conclusion?