DrDarkMatch
9K posts
DrDarkMatch
@Addkell
Reads the the comments
Indiana, USA เข้าร่วม Temmuz 2010
351 กำลังติดตาม81 ผู้ติดตาม
@TraceTheLaw It's like a newspaper than laced it's ink with heroin so you felt good holding and so you kept buying it every week.
Great analogy
English
It’s like suing a newspaper for delivering to you every week, arranging their columns in a more captivating way, or continuing an article a couple of pages further in.
Part of the essence of speech is the way it is expressed and presented.
Trace Mitchell@TraceTheLaw
These verdicts rest on a premise that is fundamentally flawed: that social media is just like any other product. It is not. No one would use an app that endlessly scrolls through blank pages or sends empty notifications, much less get “addicted” to it. The “product” in these “product design” cases is First Amendment protected expression. Speech does not and cannot exist in a vacuum. It is expressed in a particular way, at a particular time, using particular mechanisms to communicate it to others. The curation and presentation of speech is inherently interwoven with its very expression. Once you understand that, you realize that you cannot regulate “product design” without also regulating First Amendment protected expression.
English
@_PsychoAlienCat @ReemAmirIbrahim Not only that.
When they found that the features were addictive and negatively impacting customers they hid that research and exploited it further
English
@ReemAmirIbrahim You fucking idiots.
They didn't get sued for "creates something people like".
Maybe try looking into the details.
They prioritized profit over the safety of children by intentionally designing addictive features.
You have no problem with someone preying on kids for profit?
English
Anytime a company creates something people like, are they just going to end up getting sued for "addiction"?
Pathetic.
English
@PriscillaPilon @ReemAmirIbrahim Yet you probably would sue Häagen-Daz if they knowingly put heroin in your ice cream wouldn't you
English
@ReemAmirIbrahim I’m suing Häagen-Daz for my ice cream addiction.
English
@EnuffaDotCom @RobertFreundLaw "Hey social media companies, stop engineering your shit to be addictive to anyone."
*Fixed*
Why should I as an adult also have to deal with a predatory algorithm just to, let's say, buy a used dining room table from someone in my area.
English
@RobertFreundLaw Or, they're going to say "Hey social media companies, stop engineering your shit to be addictive to children."
English
Watch for politicians on both sides to say “See? We need kids off these dangerous platforms. To do that, we need to build a massive surveillance apparatus and destroy all online anonymity.”
And people will support it “because kids.”
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
BREAKING: New Mexico jury finds that Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp are harmful to children's mental health and orders Meta to pay a $375 million penalty.
English
@signsofaging @RobertFreundLaw Giving your id for this stuff is a red herring to get more access to even more data.
The real question is why do we tolerate this exploitive algorithm behavior *at all*
Regardless of age group
English
@RobertFreundLaw That’s a whole other sentence and worth fighting in its own right. To use it to deter individuals from holding these companies accountable is not right. They once didn’t have federal mandates to check ids for cigarettes. Was asking folks to show a license mass surveillance?
English
@RobertFreundLaw If an algorithm is designed to hook users like a slot machine, it's not "engagement," it's exploitation.
Targeting kids just make it more obvious. The real question isn't the lawsuit. It is why we tolerated this model at all regardless of age
English
These verdicts rest on a premise that is fundamentally flawed: that social media is just like any other product.
It is not.
No one would use an app that endlessly scrolls through blank pages or sends empty notifications, much less get “addicted” to it. The “product” in these “product design” cases is First Amendment protected expression.
Speech does not and cannot exist in a vacuum. It is expressed in a particular way, at a particular time, using particular mechanisms to communicate it to others.
The curation and presentation of speech is inherently interwoven with its very expression.
Once you understand that, you realize that you cannot regulate “product design” without also regulating First Amendment protected expression.
FIRE@TheFIREorg
English
@CorieWhalen So how much is Meta and Google paying for these obfuscation posts?
Israel was paying $7k
Are Meta and Google any sweeter?
English
This California jury’s ruling against Meta and Google is honestly wild. If social media platforms can be held liable for “causing harm” via “addiction,” what *won’t* fit that standard? I think parents should limit screen time, especially for very young kids, but come on, people.
English
@ClayTravis If that hypothetical person descended from the rafters like a mascot at an NBA game yeah I would accept it
English
Erika Kirk’s husband was assassinated in September. It’s March & a black comedian is putting on white face & mocking her in a video. Honest question, if a prominent black leader had been assassinated & a white comedian put on blackface & mocked his widow, what would happen?
DRUSKI@druski
How Conservative Women in America act 😂🇺🇸
English
@BulwarkOnline So he doesn't know that that vest would weight ~250 lbs at a minimum
English
Vance suggests Iran could have used nuclear suicide vests: “You talk about people who walk into a crowded supermarket and have a vest on, and they blow up the vest and a couple of people get killed, and that's a terrible tragedy. What happens when what's on the vest is not something that can kill a couple of people, but can kill many, many tens of thousands of people?”
English
@ReemAmirIbrahim Because the algorithm will actively curate and manipulate on a per user basis to be as addictive and destructive as possible.
A casino simply exists and it's games are what they are. The basic rules of blackjack aren't changed as you win/lose to further addict a person
English
Should gambling addicts sue casinos? Should overeaters sue supermarkets?
Obviously not! So why are social media companies being sued?
We're entering a world where companies that create something other people actually want are at risk of being sued, banned, or heavily regulated.
English
@GivnerAriel Absolutely not. What is disgusting is the details of the case. The algorithms of FB and YT were specifically targeting destructive tendencies and amplify them to create greater addiction. Active manipulation
A movie simply exists it doesn't change itself to draw n your attention
English
This is disgusting and I can’t wait for the appeals.
The precedent set by YouTube being liable for screen-time addiction is kind of scary. Treating algorithms like a defective product opens the door to endless lawsuits over “addictive” tech.
What’s next? Books, video games, junk food? What happened to personal responsibility?
BBC Breaking News@BBCBreaking
US jury finds Meta and YouTube liable for woman's childhood social media addiction in landmark trial bbc.in/47nqXq0
English
@JeffPalo @CryptoMaxi13 @BadgedPatriot Yes, empty the water heater or at least so the water line is below the valve. Then you can unscrew the old valve to replace it.
English
@CryptoMaxi13 @BadgedPatriot Do you have to empty it fully to do this after it’s in and in use?
English
A plumber just told me you are supposed to drain your water heater once a year to get the junk at the bottom out to extend the life of the heater. Does anybody actually do that?😳
English
@CryptoMaxi13 @BadgedPatriot 100% this.
Nothing comes out of that tiny normal valve.
Our water is so hard, when I flush the water heater it looks like teeth come out
English
@BadgedPatriot I do. Pro tip: swap out that crappy little valve with a full port ball valve. Makes it so much faster and you’ll actually get everything out.
English
English
@Jonny_Dutch @_00GQ think he's just genetically superior AF and having access to the proper resources and equipment unlocked him like a premium character. 😭
GIF
English
What’s his actual story? there’s no way he’s this athletic/talented by chance
Speedy HQ@IShowSpeedHQ
🚨| NEW: The NFL released another angle of Speed hitting a spin move on real pro athletes and getting past the entire defense 🤯🔥 Do you think Speed could easily make it to the NFL? 👀👇
English
@ribzoftiktok The is calling this caramelized... lol what
Reminds me of the guy telling everyone they're making gumbo wrong and the guy makes a rue blonder than Capt Crunch
Both of them do not know Ball
English
BREAKING: Trump claims that Iran gave him a present:
“They gave us a present and the present arrived today. It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is but it was a very significant prize and they gave it to us.”
WTF!
English
@OzMediaOfficial "The hardest part about designing a perpetual motion machine is figuring out where to hide the motor"
English
The same people who fall for this are the same people who wonder why we have science class in school.
The Disrespected Trucker@DisrespectedThe
Congress will probably make this illegal.
English