Meta told to pay $375m for misleading users over child safety https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cql75dn07n2o
A jury found that Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, was liable for the way in which its platforms endangered children and exposed them to sexually explicit material and contact with sexual predators.
This is the same company behind age verification lobbying effort to protect child but in reality it is the biggest offender out there. How ironic?
@nixCraft the whole point of Meta's age verification lobbying efforts: make somebody else responsible for doing age verification.
That way they can throw up their hands and say "we asked the app store and it said they're of age!"
They're trying to make their problem into somebody else's problem. And making all of our lives worse in the process.
@nixCraft all that to say - I don't find it ironic at all because those age verification laws have nothing to do with child safety.
If they had to do with child safety they would do something that actually increases child safety. For example - you could establish a baseline set of parental safety controls that mobile phones need to offer, since that's primarily what kids use now.
All these laws do is shift liability.
@nixCraft The whole point of age verification for companies like Meta is that they get to add state certified identity data to the user profiles they sell. That's all. This is just about pumping more data out of the users and selling ads for more money since the user profiles will be more valuable.
It's honestly despicable trying to cover that with the fig leaf of child safety.
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