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