The only outcome I see from the Meta ruling is all of the other platforms getting spooked by the huge payout and starting to preemptively add aggressive age-gating and ID checks on everything on the internet (regardless of local legislation).
Not as much as most people think.
A huge percentage of the physical world runs through these platforms - and if you add Twitter it gets even worse.
Plenty of groups I follow communicate exclusively through social media channels. If you want to know what events are happening there - in some cases even what hours they're open - it's through Facebook or Instagram.
For things which aren't formal businesses (photo clubs, bar popups, all sorts of things) it's even more prevalent.
Sure, if I want to sit in my house and discuss philosphy on Hacker News or IRC those exist, but it is very difficult to avoid Meta's platforms and have a social life - much less a dating life.
To many people, the Internet is Facebook.
Back in the day, the same people considered AOL to be the Internet.
That's also the reason why so many people don't have children any more, or only later in their life when they are economically settled.
Most of them don't work as advertised.
> Parental monitoring and controlling usage on sites like Youtube and Facebook is a long solved problem, if the parent put any basic effort in.
How old are your kids?
Both parents working actually i think is a net-good thing - it teaches children to be responsible from early age. As my parents were both working - USSR - even when i was 5 years old i was already watching my 1 year old sister. And we were pretty typical at that.
On paper. In practice... especially in rural areas not filled to the brim with busybodies, enforcement is spotty or limited to excessive, inappropriate morons.
Please expand on this, cause holy fuck couldn't it less apply to my experience educating - then raising my own - kids.
If we're going to promote a policy of personal responsibility, let's at least look at all the persons involved.