Every time I scroll through the topic list, I read this as "Mets lose twice in two days" and I think "Big deal."
@jdb what is a ban if it’s not enforced? Clicking “Yes, I am 18” when entering a porn site doesn’t cut it. It’d be like telling the gas station clerk yes I am 18 when buying a pack of reds.
there is no way you’d trust these sketchy porn companies or the state to maintain privacy of such searches. If I enjoy BBWs, Lars likes bondage and S&M and hurting likes being pegged, none of us deserve to have those revealed. And you know as well as I, that information would never be protected.
Besides, with VPNs, if it's available anywhere, it's available everywhere.
And a teenage boy would sell his kidney to be able to pay for access (not that it is expensive these days). I used to wait several minutes for a decent resolution picture to load with the old AOL.
Not everyone is a porn addict.
Many have tried and failed to copy the tobacco litigation model. Creating that kind of change is much more complicated and dependent on legal theories that haven’t survived in other cases.The litigation is just beginning and it's going to be devastating for these companies. Corporations hate getting sued. The filings make headlines, defense costs are prohibitive, and big verdicts and settlements hurt directly (the payout) and indirectly (reputational damage that can be even more costly). Litigation also involves discovery and, as we saw with the tobacco cases, the "drip drip drip" of revelations that, again, impact reputation, stock valuation, and the bottom line.
In the tobacco lawsuits, the plaintiffs' lawyers, through discovery, uncovered internal tobacco company documents that exposed corporate deception and cover-ups about addiction and nicotine manipulation. The tobacco reimbursement lawsuits resulted in the largest redistribution of the costs of corporate wrongdoing in US history.
The settlement forced the tobacco companies to change their advertising and marketing campaigns. They had to stop using billboards, merchandise branding and "Joe Camel" ads, which had been criticized for targeting young people. The wide dissemination of tens of millions of pages of internal company documents made a huge difference in public perception and that, in turn, meant the tobacco companies lost their legislative cover. The tobacco litigation caused a sea change and was exponentially more effective than regulation.
This is a natural stepping stone to some loser filing suit against Anthropic or Chat GPT for “ruining their life”.
Meta and YouTube feed you content that you have shown an interest in. There is nothing unique about them.
Netflix moves into the next show/ movie immediately when the one you’re watching finishes. That’s your infinite scroll. They also tailor recommendations based on what you watch. That’s your algorithm.
And Meta and YouTube are not creating any of this content.
I think these rulings violate section 230.
Mind you I think social media is a major net negative for society (I get the irony).
@jdb what is a ban if it’s not enforced? Clicking “Yes, I am 18” when entering a porn site doesn’t cut it. It’d be like telling the gas station clerk yes I am 18 when buying a pack of reds.
there is no way you’d trust these sketchy porn companies or the state to maintain privacy of such searches. If I enjoy BBWs, Lars likes bondage and S&M and hurting likes being pegged, none of us deserve to have those revealed. And you know as well as I, that information would never be protected.
Besides, with VPNs, if it's available anywhere, it's available everywhere.
And a teenage boy would sell his kidney to be able to pay for access (not that it is expensive these days). I used to wait several minutes for a decent resolution picture to load with the old AOL.
Not everyone is a porn addict.
not every kid would or is addicted to phones
And a teenage boy would sell his kidney to be able to pay for access (not that it is expensive these days). I used to wait several minutes for a decent resolution picture to load with the old AOL.
Were a long way from the days of wandering around in the woods and overgrown lots of our childhood, hoping to stumble upon someone's porn stash that they had to ditch.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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And a teenage boy would sell his kidney to be able to pay for access (not that it is expensive these days). I used to wait several minutes for a decent resolution picture to load with the old AOL.
Were a long way from the days of wandering around in the woods and overgrown lots of our childhood, hoping to stumble upon someone's porn stash that they had to ditch.
The mother lode was always school paper drive bins...comic books, Mad and Cracked magazines and of course skin mags.
A good friend will bail you out of jail, but your best friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying "that was f***ing awesome"