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Think the roughly $18 Billion Meta has settled for over child safety is a slap on the wrist?

Wait until you see the actual details: ๐Ÿ˜€ Paid in annual installments over a 10-year period

๐Ÿ˜œ States receive the money, not the victims

๐Ÿค‘ 30% will only be paid if YouTube & TikTok:

"...pay an amount matching the 30% figure "...implement a one-hour Daily Limit, Night Mode, and age assurance measures"

https://about.fb.com/news/2026/08/agreement-with-state-attorneys-general-supporting-teens/

Meta even wrote a wonderfully open letter to their competitors!

Sadly now everyone will have to verify themselves, too bad for Meta, now they will have to collect even more data - which we know they totally oppose and hate ;)b

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[-] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

I ain't gonna verify shit...

I don't use their garbage, and will continue to not use their garbage. if anything else I use gets attacked, I'll abandon that too upto and I clouding the internet entirely. idgaf.. corporations are cancer and I won't play on the same sandbox as them. they are literally enemies of the free world

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