cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/69846016
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/69846015
Google, Meta, and TikTok have filed separate lawsuits against California over Assembly Bill 1709, a state law that restricts addictive social media features for children under 16. The complaints, filed Wednesday, argue that the law violates the First Amendment and conflicts with Section 230. The law is scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2027.
Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1709 on September 10 as part of a broader package covering social media and AI chatbot safety.
What California’s AB 1709 Restricts
AB 1709 targets three features that the law defines as “psychologically exploitative features”:
personalized feeds endless scrolling autoplay videos Platforms covered by the law must also take reasonable steps to verify the ages of their users. California’s goal is to stop companies from using features designed to keep children scrolling after they meant to put the phone down.
So … Google, Meta and TikTok want people under 16 to be exposed to addictive feeds?
Well yeah
Won’t someone think of the children!
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.
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.
