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  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Meta & YouTube on trial for social media addiction
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    4 days ago

    I think there’s a tangible difference between entertaining and addicting, with a detriment to the consumer.

    If you think about something like slot machines, and gambling addiction, many people are addicted, losing money, and can’t stop:

    Arguably, addiction is bad and should be regulated (see: cigarettes).

    The detriment instead of money (in this particular case) was teens’ mental health, and from what I can recall, the algorithm was explicitly predatory and would serve them up advertisements for things when it detected low or turbulent emotional states, encouraging them to keep using the application and feeling shitty about themselves.

    Meta was given a slap on the wrist, it’s a fine of $300M ($0.3B) on a company sitting on $217.24 billion.

    I doubt they’ll change their behavior but legal outcomes are about setting precedents.

  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What’s your most controversial opinion?
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    27 days ago

    I don’t even think he was a degenerate rich guy starting out, I think he was a degenerate who took on the role of criminal mastermind and then found a literal partner in crime - Ghislane Maxwell.

    Together they figured out that the world’s elite are far more depraved and bored than they know what to do with, and they endeavored on a long timescale criminal enterprise of sexual slavery, extortion, bribery and blackmail.

    I mean, just imagine how easy it was to hook them:

    “You have all the money in the world but what’s the one thing money can’t buy?”

    It’s like the fucking squid games, IRL.

    (The controversial opinion is the ultra wealthy are all morally bankrupt, btb; America has a shrine worship of the wealthy as being virtuous by merit of wealth)