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What next, FedEx will be ordered to pay a billion dollars to address harm caused by the fact that some people mail child porn using FedEx?

Movie studios will be ordered to pay a billion dollars each to address harm that movies caused kids by teaching them unrealistic ideas about how hand-to-hand combat works?



> a jury found that the company knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms


In this case Meta was found guilty by a jury of knowingly harming children’s mental health and deliberately lying to users about the safety measure they take against sexual exploitation of children.

If a movie studio or shipping company does that, then I do hope that “what’s next” is the same (or harsher) judgement and sentencing.




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