Agreed, unfortunately I think this will only fuel further age and ID verification enforcements. And of course change nothing in the design of the platforms.

As I understand it there are dozens of similar cases already started. The precedent is what's meaningful

That is $375M to a single person. This wasn’t a class action. This was a precedent-setting case that opens the floodgates for future lawsuits. Until now, actually getting courts to agree with plaintiffs has been impossible. But since courts use precedent, this allows future plaintiffs to refer to it when filing their own lawsuits.

I don't think that's what the parents or kids want, but I do think that'll be what happens, yes.

Not sure this is what social media wants. They want to maximize shareholder value. The teen segment is crazy valuable since a lot of them are able to convince parents to buy them all kinds of shit. Without this segment, advertisers will turn to other platforms and thus remove lots of ad money from these platforms

"US Justice" system exists like the tooth fairy exists. We have a legal system, not a justice system, and it's working exactly as intended.

Wtf is up with the Guardian lately and these headlines?

I was just thinking the same thing! Might be filler articles used for shitposts, maybe by someone in their organization.

I just read one about a "possible" UK shortage in certain prescription medicines. The actual meat of the article was a guy saying "The supply chain is disrupted and we need alternate means of delivery." Yes, thank you Captain Obvious. It's is the same for basically EVERY imported product that comes by sea right now. They could write the same article for dozens of different industries. They're all impacted the same way. Hush, Guardian, hush.