Meta’s legal defeat could be a victory for children, or a loss for everyone

Is societal media not conscionable bad, but illegally bad? Should tech companies wage for making it that way? According to 2 US juries - and nary shortage of extracurricular commentary - the reply to some questions is "yes."

Earlier this week, 2 juries - one successful New Mexico, one successful Los Angeles - held Meta liable for a full of hundreds of millions of dollars for harming minors. YouTube was besides recovered liable successful Los Angeles, and some companies are appealing their losses. In 1 sense, the decisions were surprising. Meta and Google run platforms for transmitting code and are typically protected successful a assortment of ways by Section 230 and the First Amendment; …

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