Monday, January 8, 2024

California Constitution initiative: Allow parents to sue social media for $1 million

Mike Masnick, TechDirt, January 8, 2024 ("Leading ‘Save The Kids!’ Advocate Pushing Absolutely Dangerous ‘Protect The California’ Ballot Initiative That Will Do Real Harm To Children"):

"And now we’ve got Jim Steyer, who has more money and ignorance than sense, trying to quietly push a California ballot initiative that would adjust the California constitution in an unconstitutional (by the US Constitution) manner to falsely claim that social media is deliberately harmful to kids, and that people should be able to sue social media for a million dollars any time any kid anywhere is 'harmed' in a manner on social media that the social media company should have magically stopped."

Kind of like the opposite of Substack's claim that they cannot magically stop Nazis but only contain them which allegedly will somehow discourage them.

If you're in California, you can work out with your co-parent whether your kid uses social media.

See also the proposed Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) at the federal level.

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