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Meta and YouTube have been found liable of harming a young user with features that were addictive to her mental
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health. As the New York Post cover said, Metaculpa, which we love, we love. Scott, what do you think? Here we go.
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>> My initial instinct is that this is actually a big deal. There's now legal
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precedent. The activities these firms engage in makes them civily at least liable. And I'm personally agrieved.
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Quite frankly, my kids got [ __ ] up on these things. Your older kids, Alex and Lou, had to endure this. And my sense is
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they've come through it pretty unscathed. >> They had less of it. Your kids are the
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ground zero. I think my kids were near a blast zone, but not the same. It wasn't
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as intense and hateful as it became. But as as big tech always does, this prays on the poor because if I'd had these
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devices and a mother who was gone before I got up in the morning and got home after sometimes after I was asleep
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because she was working and I was totally unsupervised and I had YouTube and Snap and Uporn and Meta and
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Facebook, I think I just would have been on these things all damn day long. It's
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sort of like they're evil babysitters, right, in some fashion. And at some point, the babysitter has to get dinged.
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>> I was thinking, okay, is this the beginning of the end? It's not. You know
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what this is? This is the end of the beginning. This industry is not going anywhere.
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>> No. >> But the era of we need to do better from Cheryl Samberg or Mark Zuckerberg
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weaponizing thousands of lawyers and lobbyists to delay and obuscate and gloss over the internal research. I do
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think that era is coming to a close.