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At a certain point, can a judge just please rule that Meta has lost its right to do business in the United States? It repeatedly ignores rulings and has lost cr

At a certain point, can a judge just please rule that Meta has lost its right to do business in the United States? It repeatedly ignores rulings and has lost credibility when it claims that it will change its practices. I don't see why they 'need' to exist. Another, more responsible social media platform company would quickly spring up in its place if it were dissolved.

Bluestein 2mo ago
Not before holding Zuck personally responsible economically for all the social disarray, psychological damage, addiction, mental instability, self image issues, spyware delivered over ads, addictiveness-by-design.-
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- codedokode 2mo ago
  To be fair, addiction is the problem of the users which have nothing better to do than scroll the app. To protect teens, Apple, Google and Microsoft must implement one-click "child mode" and block installing or accessing social network in this mode. It is stupid to blame Meta for what is parents and OS developers responsibility. An app should not require selfie and a passport to use it. UPD: Indeed the subject is selfies and passports, let me quote [1]: > As part of the case, Torrez was seeking to force Meta to overhaul its apps by implementing features like effective age-verification technologies, altering recommendation algorithms that don’t compromise child well-being and making other modifications that result in “fundamentally restructuring how Meta is allowed to do business in the state,” the AG said at a press briefing before the second phase of the trial began. > In addition to the abatement fund, Thursday’s order requires Meta to continue improving “age assurance models and tools in New Mexico” using AI, and to attempt “to develop, within two years, a dedicated under-13-years-of-age prediction model.” First, children should not be on Facebook, second, there should be no selfies (which is what states want) but instead a one-click "child mode" set up by parents without any selfies. Also note how journalists hide the main issue deep in the text so that by seeing the header you do not get the real issue and be deceived. Typical propaganda trick. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/06/meta-to-pay-into-567-million-fund-after-child-harms-case-new-mexico.html https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/06/meta-to-pay-into-567-million...
  - snovymgodym 2mo ago
    lots of people have better things to do and still scroll the app
  - jraph 2mo ago
    Not at all, the problem is with the apps that are carefully designed to create that in users.
    - codedokode 2mo ago
      Nobody forces the user to use the app. And from the screenshots I see online, Meta's app, Threads is used mostly by adult people to post dating stories and jokes. Do not consider this dangerous. Instagram is also used mostly by adults. As for Facebook, I do not know who uses it.
      - rolandog 2mo ago
        You needn't shill for big tech companies; on the contrary, good and sensible regulation has been eroded by all the lobbying efforts these monopolists have done and the pressure of the faux-conservatives that portray themselves as victims of persecution against their free speech rights (when they had been correctly flagged as posting harmful content or hoaxes [0]). [0]: https://youtu.be/nf7XHR3EVHo https://youtu.be/nf7XHR3EVHo
        codedokode 2mo ago
        But if Facebook made feed less addictive, would not it become more boring and hard-working Joe would not be able to have a rest after a working day?
        rolandog 2mo ago
        There are a couple of fallacies you've managed to bundle there: 1. Doomscrolling Facebook/Instagram is not equivalent to rest 2. Although rest is a good reward for a hard day's work, you're conflating Social Media Usage with resting, which has been proven to be detrimental to overall well-being [0], and associated with poor sleep quality (i.e. detrimental to rest). 3. You were saying that addiction was a user problem, but now you're acknowledging the addictiveness of the platform Your response may have been facetious and sarcastic, but your previous replies suggest that that wasn't the case. [0]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12529-025-10411-9#:~:text=Abstract%20Background%20Worldwide%2C,health%20and%20well-being. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12529-025-10411-9...
- GuB-42 2mo ago
  If Zuck is personally responsible for everything, then no one else at Meta is, which mean Zuck will be ruined, but the company will continue doing its nasty things, with someone else at its head. That's why companies are fined and not just one person.
  - Bluestein 2mo ago
    Fair point - I did think about that. Fine I to bankruptcy first. Then Zuck.-
arionhardison 2mo ago
Considering it was all done intentionally and on behalf of Israel; No.
neutronicus 2mo ago
Losing WhatsApp would be pretty painful for me, personally.
- alphabeta3r56 2mo ago
  There will be something else

Bluestein 2mo ago

Not before holding Zuck personally responsible economically for all the social disarray, psychological damage, addiction, mental instability, self image issues, spyware delivered over ads, addictiveness-by-design.-

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codedokode 2mo ago
To be fair, addiction is the problem of the users which have nothing better to do than scroll the app. To protect teens, Apple, Google and Microsoft must implement one-click "child mode" and block installing or accessing social network in this mode. It is stupid to blame Meta for what is parents and OS developers responsibility. An app should not require selfie and a passport to use it. UPD: Indeed the subject is selfies and passports, let me quote [1]: > As part of the case, Torrez was seeking to force Meta to overhaul its apps by implementing features like effective age-verification technologies, altering recommendation algorithms that don’t compromise child well-being and making other modifications that result in “fundamentally restructuring how Meta is allowed to do business in the state,” the AG said at a press briefing before the second phase of the trial began. > In addition to the abatement fund, Thursday’s order requires Meta to continue improving “age assurance models and tools in New Mexico” using AI, and to attempt “to develop, within two years, a dedicated under-13-years-of-age prediction model.” First, children should not be on Facebook, second, there should be no selfies (which is what states want) but instead a one-click "child mode" set up by parents without any selfies. Also note how journalists hide the main issue deep in the text so that by seeing the header you do not get the real issue and be deceived. Typical propaganda trick. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/06/meta-to-pay-into-567-million-fund-after-child-harms-case-new-mexico.html https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/06/meta-to-pay-into-567-million...
- snovymgodym 2mo ago
  lots of people have better things to do and still scroll the app
- jraph 2mo ago
  Not at all, the problem is with the apps that are carefully designed to create that in users.
  - codedokode 2mo ago
    Nobody forces the user to use the app. And from the screenshots I see online, Meta's app, Threads is used mostly by adult people to post dating stories and jokes. Do not consider this dangerous. Instagram is also used mostly by adults. As for Facebook, I do not know who uses it.
    - rolandog 2mo ago
      You needn't shill for big tech companies; on the contrary, good and sensible regulation has been eroded by all the lobbying efforts these monopolists have done and the pressure of the faux-conservatives that portray themselves as victims of persecution against their free speech rights (when they had been correctly flagged as posting harmful content or hoaxes [0]). [0]: https://youtu.be/nf7XHR3EVHo https://youtu.be/nf7XHR3EVHo
      - codedokode 2mo ago
        But if Facebook made feed less addictive, would not it become more boring and hard-working Joe would not be able to have a rest after a working day?
        rolandog 2mo ago
        There are a couple of fallacies you've managed to bundle there: 1. Doomscrolling Facebook/Instagram is not equivalent to rest 2. Although rest is a good reward for a hard day's work, you're conflating Social Media Usage with resting, which has been proven to be detrimental to overall well-being [0], and associated with poor sleep quality (i.e. detrimental to rest). 3. You were saying that addiction was a user problem, but now you're acknowledging the addictiveness of the platform Your response may have been facetious and sarcastic, but your previous replies suggest that that wasn't the case. [0]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12529-025-10411-9#:~:text=Abstract%20Background%20Worldwide%2C,health%20and%20well-being. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12529-025-10411-9...
GuB-42 2mo ago
If Zuck is personally responsible for everything, then no one else at Meta is, which mean Zuck will be ruined, but the company will continue doing its nasty things, with someone else at its head. That's why companies are fined and not just one person.
- Bluestein 2mo ago
  Fair point - I did think about that. Fine I to bankruptcy first. Then Zuck.-

arionhardison 2mo ago

Considering it was all done intentionally and on behalf of Israel; No.

neutronicus 2mo ago

Losing WhatsApp would be pretty painful for me, personally.

alphabeta3r56 2mo ago
There will be something else