TikTok, Facebook and YouTube sued by New York City for alleged harm to kids’ mental health ::New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday that his administration has filed a lawsuit against the parent companies of TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and YouTube, alleging that their services are damaging to the mental health of young adults and children in the largest U.S. city.
We allow children to buy and use these devices but it’s the companies who are at fault.
Like, hey, how about doing your job and making some new legislation?
I understand what you mean but they are also so ubiquitous it’s hard as a parent to enforce. I try to delete YouTube from our TV’s but it’s nearly impossible. And if you tell kids not to eat the cookies, they are going to find a way to eat the cookies.
Yes, but we shouldn’t be leaving cookies all over the floor for a toddler.
They should be put up, in a jar.
Yeah, it’s way too difficult for parents to handle this. Where I live perhaps roughly 10% of parents even think of this as a problem.
“Providing young people with a safer, healthier experience online has always been core to our work,” Google said. “In collaboration with youth, mental health and parenting experts, we’ve built services and policies to give young people age-appropriate experiences, and parents robust controls.”
It’s ridiculous to design an app specifically to get children addicted, then say it’s the role of the parents to prevent children from getting addicted. The parents are literally the obstacle that Google is fighting against. The solution is to pass legislation that will force the apps to become less addictive.
It’s not really alleged when they admit in their own interoffice emails that it’s happening.
Permit me to express my dissent, for it is my firm conviction that they have unabashedly declared this to be naught but a cunningly contrived deception.
