Guess the contenders for BeEvil list keeps growing. 6 year olds? What's next babies raised in Meta day cares?
Why the Zuck are these companies not punished.
Why the Zuck are these companies not punished.
Why would they be? The prevailing narrative is that we must enshrine social media platforms into our lives as permanent fixtures, akin to running water and electricity. If the culture were to accept that these platforms are actually unnecessary, unhealthy, and their use should be discouraged (like cigarettes), then our addicted society would have to face a major detoxing crisis that few are prepared to acknowledge.
The tricky thing about the digital space continues to be that, in general, it is under-regulated. It's not whether or not companies have broken laws; it's that there are so rarely laws to break.
COPPA is the only one I can think of that might possibly apply here, and nothing in COPPA says you can't build a service for 6-year-olds (only that if you're going to, it must be done carefully).
It just looks bad.
Doing things just because the law allows it is a sign of low-grade thinking. It's why big companies hire /and listen to/ external PR firms.
Correct! Genius thinking is doing things the law doesn't allow and hiring PR firms to make it look fine.
Enron had a day care center for its employees. Built it to look like a miniature version of its corporate headquarters. What could possibly go wrong?
https://maps.apple.com/?address=1565%20Louisiana%20St,%20Hou...
(To be fair, I went to a corporate-run day care center when I was a kid. It was run by Playboy. They did a pretty good job of keeping things hidden from us kiddies. We thought it was just a hotel.)
Second, because basically all of our laws are made by legal bribery.
Probably something to do with that.