Schools Sue Social-Media Platforms Over Alleged Harms to Students

While generally I want to see these companies sued to knock them back a few rungs on the hubris ladder, I couldn't help but seeing one really important argument made against suing.

The board voted 3-2 to join the litigation, over the opposition of board members who said that the lawsuit deflected responsibility from parents and that the district was overstepping its role.

Parents are not absolved from the responsibility of educating their children on the internet. In fact, in the interest of keeping censorship out of the legal purview, it's best for parents to take an active role in educating their children and even censoring the material themselves. By pushing the responsibility for censorship on to government, you create a real and tangible risk to free speech because we know how the authorities love to overreach their power.

Parents had success in one related case. In May 2021, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a lawsuit against Snap—brought by the parents of two boys who died in a car crash while traveling at more than 100 miles an hour—could proceed. The parents sued Snap for negligent product design because the boys were using a Snap add-on feature that allowed users to document how fast they were traveling while recording a video.

You can't make this up. #RichardStallmanWasAlwaysRight

Seems pretty legit. I used to be such fan of tech, but now I just wanna burn it all to the ground. I've deleted all social media. Lemmy might last another week on my phone but it seems pretty useless for me. Tiktok is the worst of all. Don't care who runs it. It's just wayyyyy to much dopamine for people's fragile minds.