> "Letting parent sue" is a very American way to go about it, but exploiting kids underdeveloped brain should be illegal.
Giving people cause of action to sue you for something is making the thing illegal. Civil law is law. And it is law that can be enforced even when the police and prosecutors are hostile or indifferent to you as a victim and sympathetic to the perpetrator, which is something that is not true of criminal law, much to the detriment of marginalized communities.
Of course, it also costs money to enforce it, which makes it harder for marginalized communities, so it's not all sunlight and roses.
Exactly. We don't live in a vacuum. So many people saying just take some personal responsibility. But when you see the effects on society at large, you have to acknowledge that maybe it's something about our genetics / psychology that's being exploited unfairly.
Add to that, that "personal responsibility" only helps when the fight is remotely fair.
I'm a reasonably diligent parent and think fairly highly of myself, but if the fight is me against a couple of trillion dollar tech companies who have very bright staff devoted to capturing my children's attention my any means necessary, well that's a fight I'm going to lose sooner or later.
>But when you see the effects on society at large, you have to acknowledge that maybe it's something about our genetics / psychology that's being exploited unfairly.
people wanting to talk to other people? Yes, that's the great benefit of social media. in the 2000's this was kids using cellphone minutes to chat around on flip phones. in the 90's it was some early online game chats. in the 80's it was kids stuck at an arcade.
I don't see anything inherently unethical about social media. You just gotta teach kids how to communicate to others and express themselves without putting down others. Not an easy feat (the bully trope goes back millenia), but this stopgap of just holding the courier accountable doesnt seem to solve anything,
"Letting parent sue" is a very American way to go about it, but exploiting kids underdeveloped brain should be illegal.