#SocialMedia #Depresssion #MentalHealth #Section230: "Meta Platforms Inc., Snap Inc., TikTok Inc., and Google LLC can’t invoke the First Amendment or the Communications Decency Act’s Section 230—a decades-old legal shield for online services—to block allegations that they designed their platforms to addict young people causing depression and anxiety, Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl ruled in an 89-page order.
The lawsuits advance a novel legal theory that attempts to treat social media platforms as defectively designed products to bypass Section 230, which has been nearly bulletproof in protecting platforms from suits based user content. Kuhl said that while social media platforms aren’t “products” for the purpose of a product liability claim, the suits sufficiently argued that companies have been careless, a negligence theory “that is not barred by federal immunity or by the First Amendment.”"
@remixtures Well that just goes against the entire spirit of why S230 was written. Hopefully it's overturned on appeal.
