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I think specifically any industry working in personal data collection of minors should absolutely have this governance burden. If Meta knows enough about their

• conductr 4y ago
  The problem with your example is the engineers have built exactly what the company wanted. Perhaps the mental illness was an unintended side effect (perhaps known). But either way a decision was made that they want X and so the engineers built X. What you're talking about is banning X, which is something a bit difference than a governance burden/compliance issue as those can generally be followed to a specification and directly measured for deficiency (eg. how to handle HIPAA data, how long to store records, etc.) If the issue is about teenagers being too immature for the product X, then typically we ban it or age restrict it using legislation (eg tobacco, alcohol, porn, etc) I think we as a society need to figure out where social media fits in and how we want to contain it and it's still early days for that. As much as I like the idea of an age restriction, I look around the world and see 6 month olds playing with iPads, 6 year olds on tiktok, etc. as the more 'average' way to parent and wonder if I'm in the minority. My kid is 4 and has never touched a device as entertainment, we taught him how to eat out at restaurants/be in public instead of pacifying him. But that seems like an old fashioned parenting method. Ok, he's technically used it briefly as a viewfinder for the camera and to facetime his grandparents
  • TomSwirly 4y ago
    > it's still early days for that. We've had social networks for twenty five years.