So ... Google, Meta and TikTok want people under 16 to be exposed to addictive feeds?

Maybe at this point we should just do it the way some countries did for cigarettes and ban social media for everyone born after 2010.

Ban centralized social media. Also ban bublicly traded social media companies. Ban gathering, agregating and selling of personal data too.

Scotus has already said that teens don't have the same extent of rights as adults, including the first amendment. So this is either gonna get thrown out on its ass, or set up some interesting precedent for US teens.

at the same time the ceo and c-suites own children are shielded from the brainrot they created.

Weird. A company product is not free speech.

Yeah, the law is wrong. It shouldn't have limit to to 16 it should ban this practice altogether.

BTW: violates first amendment? Since when being deciding what content will trigger the user is protected speech? Freedom of speech supposed to allow me to say anything I want without hiding my identity and any action government would do to punish me for it would be illegal.

If they think that this breaks first amendment I think they should be sued for removing and blocking content on request of the trump administration. It is essentially government blocking someone's speech with extra step.

The whole argument about section 230 is even more ridiculous, but it reminds me. Section 230 needs to be updated to exclude all the corporations. It was meant for hobby users running forums, Usenet, mailing lists. So they could do it without having to worry about lawsuits that could ruin them. Google, Meta and others have plenty of resources to deal with it and since they control the algorithm and effectively what is displayed they should be responsible for everything other people see.