Cool, maybe I'll get a check for $5 in 10 years.
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Meanwhile, Roblox:
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Don’t get too hyped yet. I see two problems:
- This was an appeals court, and could be overturned by a higher court
- The companies appealed prematurely on the basis of a 1996 law shielding them from liability; this ruling only says that the companies still have to go to court, not that they aren’t immune.
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out. Hopefully these cases go to trial and these companies don’t settle out of court and silence all of the plaintiffs.
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Now do AI.
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It's not just young people. Their heuristics work on all demographics.
Reuters should fire the guy who writes all the headlines.
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I just can't get behind suits like this.
There's never been any rules on limits of how much fun or entertainment is too much fun or entertainment in the digital world. Getting sued for someone wanting to do something too much? How many people have to cross the threshold of doing something to an unhealthy degree before it's too many and turns illegal? Or turns to be able to sue. "Your app\game\tech made me want to be on it all the time, so I'm suing you because I want to use it too much"
Where's the limit for this? Should blizzard get sued for world of warcraft? Clash of Clans? All of at least the US was addicted to TV for decades. Do we sue Sony for making the TV, or do we sue Fox because the new episode of the X Files had to be watched so I couldn't go out Friday night at 9pm?
Where is the limit supposed to be? I despise Meta, but it doesn't mean I want some bullshit precedent to be set to put some gray area upper limit on how good something is allowed to be before it causes legal issues.
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