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Unsealed Court Documents Show Teen Addiction Was Big Tech's "Top Priority" (techoversight.org)
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Microsite Highlighting Evidence from the Landmark Social Media Addiction Trials.

New documents show the tactics Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok execs used to disrupt learning, prey on minors, and co-opt the PTA to control the narrative with parents

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[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 47 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

This article is pro KOSA Act. A tainted report

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/kids-online-safety-act-will-make-internet-worse-everyone

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 36 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

The two options always seem to be:

  • Option 1: Do the thing that expands the hyper-surveillance police state.

  • Option 2: Do nothing and wait for the problem to get worse, until you're compelling to accept Option 1.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 35 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Which is why we need to replace the people deciding what the options are.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 23 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 17 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

This is why I hate all the superhero movies of the past 20 years. Their ubiquity has made people subconsciously believe someone else out there with super powers will come to save the day, so it's okay to continue sitting back helplessly and waiting.

[–] NChiwana76@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

I think that’s why comic writers started going to stories with flawed non super powered heroes.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I mean.....it worked in WWII.

See, there was this guy named Hitler, who wanted to take over the world, and kill the Jews.

Then two jewish teens from Cleveland created Superman.

So Superman goes off, fights the nazis, and was on his way to Hitler's house, to give him a lecture about why killing is bad, but Hitler heard Superman was coming. So he killed himself before Superman got there.

True story.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

My only knowledge of WWII comes from Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbor, Schindler's List, Conspiracy, Enemy at the Gates, Midway, Memphis Belle, Das Boot, Valkyrie, and Band of Brothers. In NONE of those historical accounts is this story told. It's probably covered in that Inglourioueaus Basteards documentary, which I still have yet to see.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 6 points 16 hours ago

Yah, their fallacy is false dichotomy.