quackademicThese workers save lives. Their clients enrich our communities. That we respect their work & the people they support so little is our shame.
Thank you Susan & everyone like you.
Mike_V“The evidence at trial points to a genuine wrong, but it is not a design defect. It is more straightforward: these companies knew their services posed foreseeable risks to young users and failed to take reasonable steps to mitigate those risks. That is a duty-of-care problem, and it calls for a duty-of-care solution.”
#dutyofcare
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/why-the-social-media-verdict-on-defective-design-gets-the-instinct-right-but-the-law-wrong/
#dutyofcare
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/why-the-social-media-verdict-on-defective-design-gets-the-instinct-right-but-the-law-wrong/
Why the Verdict on Social Media Defective Design Harming Children Gets the Instinct Right But the Law Wrong - Michael Geist
A California jury's decision last week to hold Meta and YouTube liable for harms to a young woman's mental health has been greeted as a watershed moment. Child safety advocates have called it Big Tech's "Big Tobacco moment." Parents who lost children to what they attribute to social media addiction embraced outside the courthouse. Commentators who have long argued that social media companies bear responsibility for the damage their services inflict on young users see the verdict as vindication. My Globe and Mail op-ed notes that the instinct behind the decision is understandable. The evidence at trial was damning, as internal Meta documents showed the company knew Instagram was harming adolescents but continued targeting them anyway. But the legal theory the jury endorsed – that social media platforms are defectively designed products – is the wrong tool for a real problem, and building on it risks undermining the very accountability the strategy seeks to deliver.
Adrian SegarEvent professionals: let's talk about COVID and duty of care. We are abrogating our responsibilities to keep attendees and staff safe.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/meeting-industry/2022/07/covid-duty-of-care
#meetings #COVID #DutyOfCare #LongCovid #eventprofs #assnchat
Dhole Moments - Software, Security, Cryptography, and FurriesCryptography Engineering Has An Intrinsic Duty of Care
Kit Marie Rackley 🦊🌊 MCCTFinal post of the series. Safeguarding rarely arrives with sirens. Children already care. Risks are now formally recognised. Schools sit inside these systems. What does 'reasonable responsibility' look like?
#Safeguarding #ClimateLiteracy #Education #DutyOfCare #ChildWellbeing
School carbon data tells a truth: most emissions come from systems pupils don’t control—transport, food, procurement.
When responsibility is misplaced, harm can follow. #Safeguarding means aligning language with reality.
#SchoolCarbon #ClimateEducation #SystemsThinking #DutyOfCare
Climate literacy isn’t activism—it’s duty of care.
Three recent reports (children & nature, school carbon, national security) quietly shift what’s reasonable to ignore in education.
This series starts here https://geogramblings.com/2026/01/23/what-three-recent-reports-tell-us-about-climate-change-young-people-and-responsibility-in-education/
This isn’t activism, it’s duty of care: What three recent reports tell us about climate change, young people, and responsibility in education
The start of a series of blog posts focusing on climate literacy and institutional responsibility, examining the complex issues children face. By analysing recent reports, the series aims to slow d…
Some stories have a dark side. Should we support those storytellers among us who use stories for immoral and unethical ends?
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2017/01/stories-have-dark-side
#meetings #EventDesign #stories #ethics #AlternativeFacts #DutyOfCare #eventprofs
Event professionals: let's talk about COVID and duty of care. We are abrogating our responsibilities to keep attendees and staff safe.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/meeting-industry/2022/07/covid-duty-of-care
#meetings #COVID #DutyOfCare #LongCovid #eventprofs #assnchat
Alec MuffettOnline Safety “Duty of Care” is failing to launch in the USA? Good.
https://alecmuffett.com/article/119339
#DutyOfCare #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #kosa
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