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aprilthird2021today at 1:54 PM3 repliesview on HN

I dunno, I kinda feel they have to pay the price for governments not having applicable regulations on this kinda stuff.

It's not reasonable to expect them to put up rules their competition don't have to abide by, and if the government has 0 rules regarding social media, what should they do?

They're not solely responsible for phone addiction but none of their competitors get sued the same...


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Sindisiltoday at 3:19 PM

Yeah, exactly.

Who can expect smol bean Meta to not act like rapacious vultures when all the other social media corporations get to?

iso1631today at 2:11 PM

You can't use the word "reasonable" when dealing with companies with more power than most governments

freejazztoday at 5:22 PM

So what should the law be? Don't be negligent? Don't be reckless? It already functions that way. Do we need to have statutes expressly dictating what people are allowed to do?