Meta wants a child safety bill rewritten to shield it from lawsuits over harm to kids
https://www.techspot.com/news/112824-meta-wants-child-safety-bill-rewritten-shield-lawsuits.html?_bhlid=abaf6a81bb657bb9d39bf0b3764242a9bb9e9343Open linkView original on lemmy.today383
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In a just world, even asking for this would be a death sentence for a company.
What an odd thing to want.
Almost like they don't give a shit if they harm kids
It's either kids or profits for Zuck. Which is more important?
insert small mexican girl meme
Why not both?
Or know that they already have harmed kids.
I'm sure this is partially what these ID laws are about, they know their product is harmful to not just kids but EVERYONE, but they don't want EVERYONE to stop using it, so what's the answer? Ban the kids
Almost like they want to profit by harming kids.
Mafia lobbies to get criminal law to be rewritten to remove punishments for crimes.
How about just fix your god damn product so people won't constantly sue you? Business nowadays is just completely asinine
At a certain size of a company, law suits are just the cost of doing business.
Won't somebody think of the shareholders?
Facefuck, 2026.
Only if they would use a neutral algorithm that shows sequentially things from your friend list.
They want to get products in the hands of very young children to create customers for life.
This is the happy meal strategy on steroids.
"We want this child safety bill to protect our corporation from children please" is such a good look
Almost as if the real goal is not protecting children, but surveillance.
🧑⚖️: "But what if your best revenuing content creators are children?"
🤓: "That's why I need you to rewrite it."
👶🧒: "Wait... wat?!"
🤓: "Don't worry. I'll protect you guys."
They'll get it too as long as they push it through before the midterms, maybe even after depending on what those look like
Let's just make brutal fucking murder and large theft legal already! /s
Legislators: "and we just have to pass it guys, sorry. No choice in the meter. They propose it, we pass it for them. That's how this all works"
Laws to allow companies to permanently fuck up our children....
That's who knew Zuck was a nonce /s
he was at a dinner with the other NONCEs
Why won't they please think of the children!?