A Historic Settlement Over Social Media Addiction

“The New York Times has been covering this issue for a long time, and I don’t understand why there is so little mention of cases in other countries. For example, in the Netherlands, the NGO Bits of Freedom won a lawsuit against Meta over its…”

“i wish Michael had discussed the major privacy implications of attempting to verify users' ages, particularly in Meta's attempts to put the onus of age verification on operating system manufacturers. we cannot have a future where OSes are l…”

“It still disappoints me that Facebook stopped being the address book that everybody updated, which is what I signed up for. I never wanted all the addictive stuff that got added; investors and advertisers did. It stopped being social media,…”

“Great! Problem solved. Lets check in a year. Lets also see how the states will wisely spend $18b to address the damage. Strangely this question was not asked in this conversation.”