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Unfortunately, a immoral as that sounds, it's not illegal.

True. It would benefit society to come up with a new framework of thinking about widespread forces on society enabled by tech. It’s not something we’ve needed to deal with in the past. And it’s clear that so much harm can be done.

Did he break any laws?

If being a greedy parasocial sociopathic addiction designer put you in prison, every single FAANG executive would be jailed without trial and the American economy would collapse within 24 hours.

Suffice to say, we hold the bar for criminality a bit higher than that.