Posted on 01/08/2023 4:40:25 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
SEATTLE (AP) — The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth.
Seattle Public Schools filed the lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court. The 91-page complaint says the social media companies have created a public nuisance by targeting their products to children.
It blames them for worsening mental health and behavioral disorders including anxiety, depression, disordered eating and cyberbullying; making it more difficult to educate students; and forcing schools to take steps such as hiring additional mental health professionals, developing lesson plans about the effects of social media, and providing additional training to teachers.
“Defendants have successfully exploited the vulnerable brains of youth, hooking tens of millions of students across the country into positive feedback loops of excessive use and abuse of Defendants’ social media platforms,” the complaint said. “Worse, the content Defendants curate and direct to youth is too often harmful and exploitive ....”
While federal law — Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — helps protect online companies from liability arising from what third-party users post on their platforms, the lawsuit argues that provision does not protect the tech giants’ behavior in this case.
“Plaintiff is not alleging Defendants are liable for what third-parties have said on Defendants’ platforms but, rather, for Defendants’ own conduct,” the lawsuit said. “Defendants affirmatively recommend and promote harmful content to youth, such as pro-anorexia and eating disorder content.”
The lawsuit says that from 2009 to 2019, there was on average a 30% increase in the number of Seattle Public Schools students who reported feeling “so sad or hopeless almost every day for two weeks or more in a row” that they stopped doing some typical activities.
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It is to laugh.
Schools are parents now who can sue?
While I think its true that kids (people) get these symptoms from using social media, it is their own fault for the most part. All they really have to do is NOT use it. Or, more specifically, not use it stupidly.
What’s worse is pool tables. Right here in River City!
I know nothing about Seattle schools — so, I’m asking...
How much of the crazy comes from stuff the schools themselves are teaching?
As I said, I don’t know — so, I’m asking...
Can’t they just forbid all cellphones (even for teachers) within a school?
As if Seattle schools cared anything about education.
So how are they being forced to use these products?
They need to look in a mirror.
But a daily dose of CRT white shaming, gender identity confusion and imminent climate change extinction cheers the kids right up. We need an Elon to fire 80% of public school staff.
We’re doomed, I tell you. Doomed!
Wait a minute...isn’t Seattle the center of the universe for Big Tech?
What’s that saying about “Don’t bite the hand...”?
Buried deep down...they asking for monetary damages.
This is a cash grab.
And yhe social media companies are being used to launder money.
Besides those HYPERACTIVE DRUGS, what would cause a 6-year-old, a 1st grader to bring a handgun to grade school and shoot 1 specific teacher? The original article said the other children were HERDED into a Gym, to me besides the addictive drugs with Homicide/Suicide side effects, it was Very Dumb to put the rest of the 549 students into a gym where they were in greater danger. Newport, VA.
The later articles are nearly a carbon copy of this one.
https://tulsaworld.com/news/national/mayor-teacher-shot-by-6-year-old-red-flag-for-the-country/article_3e5f1ab8-d552-5e77-b4bf-ec723298880c.html
LIBERAL is very BLUE. https://bestneighborhood.org/conservative-vs-liberal-map-newport-news-city-area-va/
Why do they need cellphones?
My peers and I survived our youth without cellphones.
Washington only state to maintain 100%-plus funded pensions, new study reports
If true, just how in Hades are they managing to do THAT, eh...?
Teaching students that we are doomed by global warming and that amicable relations between the races are unachievable (CRT) is probably the cause of the students’ depression.
The firms should countersue.
Just like cigarettes. And look at all the money they got
1. Blame somebody else for the poor education children are getting in Seattle public schools.
2. Get some money from the big tech companies, after making them feel guilty for successfully marketing their products to children, and to the parents.
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