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.
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.
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.
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.
