Erik Uden 🚩1d ago

you think it's crazy that drug and tobacco companies lied about their product not being addictive, provenly knowing otherwise, yet nobody expected them to ever have to pay reparations to their victims?

try convincing someone today that Facebook, Twitter, and Co. should pay reparations for being addictive. In the future, people will flip their shit about this not being the norm like we do when hearing about cocaine in coca cola

Show threadErik Uden 🚩1d ago
A Los Angeles jury has ordered YouTube and Facebook to pay 3 million USD to a woman who showed how these social media platforms made her addicted. Another domino has fallen.
Show threadHans Cummings (he/him)1d ago
@ErikUden That's just cost of doing business for a company with their annual revenue.
Show threadErik Uden 🚩
@JediSoth while I agree with you, I must disagree with the general pessimism of that sentiment, as, surely, YouTube does not make 3.000.000 USD per user ;)
Mar 26 at 1:52pmWeb
Show threadHans Cummings (he/him)1d ago
@ErikUden Not per user, no. But that fine would be more meaningful it it was per user instead of just to one individual.