In the suit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, the San Mateo County Board of Education and Superintendent Nancy Magee claim the social media giants designed their products to target youth at the expense of their mental health.
"Every day, schools are dealing with the fallout, which includes distracted students, increased absences, more children diagnosed with ADHD, cyber-bullying that carries into the classroom, and even physical damage to our San Mateo Schools, an example is the vandalism caused by the TikTok so-called 'Devious Lick Challenge' at the start of the school year," Magee said.
The suit alleges the platforms are a public nuisance and that they are negligent in the design and marketing of their products, among other things.The plaintiffs are asking that the companies, including Alphabet Inc., XXVI Holdings Inc. and Google LLC -- which are related to YouTube -- and TikTok owner ByteDance Inc., are held liable for their alleged behavior and ordered to stop"engaging in further actions causing or contributing to the public nuisance.
And as the plaintiff's news release notes, even President Joe Biden called out the platforms"for the experiment they are running on our children for profit" during his State of the Union Address. "Unfortunately, these companies have chosen to pursue childhood addiction as a business model, and to treat the attention of young people as a commodity to be traded," Weintraub said.
"For example, through Family Link, we provide parents with the ability to set reminders, limit screen time and block specific types of content on supervised devices," Castañeda said.
ukgirlinsf This graph looks pretty dire to me. The tech industry is well aware of the effects of the 'interactivity' -- they have almost perfect data on their customers -- down to the suicide data etc -- and they bury it despite the public health crisis.…
Multiple studies. Unpublished. Indisputable. My tech bro friends give their kids flip phones. Elephant’s in the room. Legal discovery.
Parents should sue the school for woke indoctrination
Of course they were designed to be interactive but addictive? Surely that is down to first, parental control, second, the users themselves. Everything in moderation! This is just enabling bad behaviors by not holding the users responsible for time spent on the platforms.
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