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Facebook or Snapchat or whatever did not create any of these tragedies. People using these services did. A handful of victim families and lawyers looking for a payday weaponized these stories and created a cottage industry of extorting tech companies for actions they had nothing to do with.

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Snapchat will ban you for having too many accounts on one phone number but sees nothing wrong with "Dab pens for sale" or "1 gram for $15". The platforms are partly to blame.

> Snapchat will ban you for having too many accounts on one phone number but sees nothing wrong with "Dab pens for sale" or "1 gram for $15".

I find the idea of Snap checking for duplicate accounts to be wildly less invasive than them analyzing all of my communication.

Moreover dab pens and "$15 grams" are legal in multiple states, including the one in which Snap themselves are based. What exactly is the injury and remedy here?

This is the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument, except the gun is also automatically mailed to any teenager with an eating disorder. It’s absurd.

I think the hearing today truly proved this argument simply doesn’t hold water anymore. It was a bloodbath.

These companies invest billions in protecting kids against specific types of content but it’s just not good enough. At the end of the day they’re profiting from clicks and views and engagement. They’re profiting from addiction, depression, abuse and suicide, and should be held liable. It’s the only way they’ll actually fix it.

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