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Meta's $17 Billion Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social Media Users (www.eff.org)
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  • The Settlement embeds age assurance technology and age-gates into Meta’s social media products and requires all users—minors and adults—to undergo a rights-threatening age estimation process
  • The Settlement places severe restrictions on Teens that can only be modified by the Teens’ parents and only then in exchange for giving their parents a ton of information about their online community and usage;
  • The Settlement seems to empower the attorneys general to enforce Meta’s content restriction on “age inappropriate content,” categories that Meta itself has had trouble administering without excluding information about sexuality, sexual and reproductive healthcare, and abortion medication;
  • The Settlement actually requires Meta to collect, analyze, and retain more information about its Teen users—when the pressure should have been on Meta to diminish its surveillance capitalism.
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[–] 11 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

I quit social media for the most part a while ago. It was a slow process of being increasingly dissatisfied with my experience. All of this stuff just makes me not want to come back.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago* (2 children)

    Do you consider Lemmy not to be social media? I guess that's the for the most part, rather than time used?

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