The Commission’s investigation preliminarily indicates that TikTok did not adequately assess how these addictive features could harm the physical and mental wellbeing of its users, including minors and vulnerable adults.
I think its too late. An entire generation had their brains fried. But yeah, better late than never.
Also the brain can actually recover. But it takes a lot of work.
For me, just reading a book is difficult now. The mind is not used to that kind of focus. My eyes go down the page, and then I realize ive been thinking of something else, and have to start over. This happens over and over again. But with practice, it gets easier.
Welcome to my life since forever
-A pre-internet ADHD person lol
Edit to add: Not to handwave the problem away, I think it is legit an issue. I also just thought that was funny.
Let me hold my breath waiting for something actually meaningful to be done about it, more than a “cost of doing business” protection payment.
6% of worldwide revenue
For ten years, and they can’t restructure it away.
great, do facebook products now.
Meta got sued and had to pay €1,500 per user in a ruling of a supreme state court which can’t be appealed. There’s a wave of lawsuits expected to follow because this actually means every Facebook user (for now, it might be possible that non-users whose data were also collected will sue, too) can easily sue now. I remember Meta boasting to have the data of some 10M Germans for targeted advertising. Unfortunately that’s hardly robust evidence but I hope they’ll sue them to hell and back.
Tech companies shouldn’t have these sorts of algorithmic profiles of people. It’s manipulation.
