The CEOs of Meta, X, TikTok, Snap, and Discord will testify before the US Senate on child safety::On January 31st, 2024, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, X CEO Linda Yaccarino, and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will testify before the US Senate during a hearing on child safety.
Cringe. But yes, let’s please continue migrating responsibility for child safety from parents to the government and megacorps.
I think these companies hold at least some responsibility to not push things like hate speech and conspiracy theories at users they know are children. They shouldn’t have to make the whole experiment “G” rated, but they also shouldn’t be allowed to push things at kids that when confronted about them, the same company states those things break their TOS and shouldn’t be on their platform to begin with.
Generally, I think the law in the US is that a good faith attempt must at least be made to keep stuff like extremist speech and illegal content off websites. Big site owners can’t wink and nod about it (or shout loudly like they do on Twitter), and they can’t secretly refuse to enforce rules to maximize profits (like they do on Facebook etc).
And by “can’t” I mean “shouldn’t,” because I strongly doubt these companies will be held responsible for much.
Yeah exactly, it should require an extra click to get to porn and outright bigotry shouldn’t be allowed
4 hours later:
Meta sues FTC, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ Facebook data
Another chapter in the theater of bourgeois justice that never makes the ruling class answer for its crimes
So… The top men of the top 5 exploiters of children on the web? I’m sure they’ll have totally unbiased testimony.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Some of the biggest names in tech will testify before the US Senate on January 31st, 2024 during a hearing about online child exploitation.
Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) issued subpoenas for Yaccarino, Spiegel, and Citron earlier this month after receiving “repeated refusals to appear during several weeks of negotiations.” Zuckerberg and Chew voluntarily agreed to testify.
The senators say the hearing will give the CEOs the chance to “testify about their failure to protect children online.”
Meta is currently facing lawsuits from dozens of states over claims it misled the public about the safety of Facebook and Instagram.
Meanwhile, school districts across the US have filed suit against Meta, ByteDance, Alphabet, and Snap, accusing them of running platforms “addictive” to kids.
“We’ve known from the beginning that our efforts to protect children online would be met with hesitation from Big Tech,” Senators Durbin and Graham said in a joint statement.
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