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> What happens when you have uninformed parents? I'm reminded that these tech companies are using strategies meant to hide the knowledge of what they're doing f
by zelon88 5y ago
> What happens when you have uninformed parents? I'm reminded that these tech companies are using strategies meant to hide the knowledge of what they're doing from the people they're doing it to. How do you handle that part of the equation?
I think if we had enough transparency we would get less uninformed parents. We force slot machine manufacturers to put addiction warnings on their machines, and only a couple hundred people use one of those per day. Facebook has no warning labels and they use the same techniques. It is no secret today that gambling is dangerous and addicting.
- mfer 5y agoTo have warnings requires government intervention. It's not just a thing that involves parents, kids, and companies.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoTangent: incidentally, we don't force addiction warnings on games in the arcades, even though those machines use many of the same techniques and actively misrepresent themselves as games of skill, while being games of chance. This is one of those open secrets that pisses me off to no end.