joachim3d ago
Tim Bray

Strong, clear, and short write-up on the social-media-addiction case that Meta and YouTube just lost. I hadn’t appreciated how important this could be: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/opinion/big-tech-meta-youtube-lawsuit.html

[paywalled sorry]

Opinion | The Terrible Cost of the Infinite Scroll

We are beginning an era in which the social media companies are finally held accountable for their harm.

The New York Times
Mar 26 at 4:12pmWeb
Show threadJ4ck3d ago

@timbray

Non-Paywalled link on Archive.today

https://archive.ph/nQns0

Show threadmathew3d ago

@jackryder @timbray Archive.today is problematic.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

Ars Technica
Show threadAlesandro Ortiz 🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈3d ago
@timbray Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/opinion/big-tech-meta-youtube-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WFA.8M6n.nFlgio6Owy64&smid=url-share
Opinion | The Terrible Cost of the Infinite Scroll

We are beginning an era in which the social media companies are finally held accountable for their harm.

The New York Times
Show threadDan Turner3d ago
@timbray For paywall -- many libraries in Canada have free access! E.g. VPL and GVPL both give members access 🙂