It does feel like a double-edge sword. On the one hand great, social media companies should be regulated and legislated into behaving in a less exploitative way. (For everyone, not just minors,...
It does feel like a double-edge sword. On the one hand great, social media companies should be regulated and legislated into behaving in a less exploitative way. (For everyone, not just minors, ideally)
And on the other hand yea, this is another weapon for the groups lobbying for universal age verification.
Good. Unless you make the negative externalities of businesses hurt them in the wallet, they have zero incentive to actually tackle them. Factories get fined when they destroy a town's drinking...
Good. Unless you make the negative externalities of businesses hurt them in the wallet, they have zero incentive to actually tackle them. Factories get fined when they destroy a town's drinking water, and social media get sued when they turn a blind eye to a child spending 16 continuous hours on Instagram.
What's the betting there will be a sudden flood of innovation in the field of identifying child users and addictive scrolling behaviour, now that each addict is a potential million-plus hole in their finances?
This seems like a reasonable judgement but I assume it will be used to justify the age verification stuff that politicians have been pushing
It does feel like a double-edge sword. On the one hand great, social media companies should be regulated and legislated into behaving in a less exploitative way. (For everyone, not just minors, ideally)
And on the other hand yea, this is another weapon for the groups lobbying for universal age verification.
Good. Unless you make the negative externalities of businesses hurt them in the wallet, they have zero incentive to actually tackle them. Factories get fined when they destroy a town's drinking water, and social media get sued when they turn a blind eye to a child spending 16 continuous hours on Instagram.
What's the betting there will be a sudden flood of innovation in the field of identifying child users and addictive scrolling behaviour, now that each addict is a potential million-plus hole in their finances?