The mayor of New York City has just taken serious legal action against a host of leading social media platforms for mental health abuse of young kids.
Eric Adams who is the Mayor of NYC recently confirmed how his respective admin filed the case against the parent firms of TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat. The lawsuit alleges that young adults are at great risk of serious harm to those located in the mega American city.
The plaintiffs included educational institutions in the city and district as well as a host of health firms that rolled out the case in the county of Los Angeles as mentioned by the Superior Court in California as such organizations have ties linked to the region as mentioned by attorneys in this recent case filing.
The mayor of NYC adds how each tech firm knew really well what it was doing and what its actions were capable of. They knowingly created, operated, marketed, and distributed the apps to better attract and make the youth addicted to their systems, ensuring parental oversight was nowhere to be seen.
The plaintiffs alleged how the tech firms ended up violating a host of city laws linked to public nuisance as well as massive negligence on the parts of those running the firms. To carry on designing and promoting such products that were addictive in nature was certainly slammed.
Meanwhile, many are said to have greatly suffered a host of negative mental health effects that arose from these popular apps on social media.
In the past 10 years, many have witnessed how addictive things taking place in the online world could be. Moreover, kids are being to non-stop streams of content that are deemed dangerous and could fuel national youth into entering into a major mental health dilemma.
Adams mentioned in his recently published statement how he hopes to take serious action against those responsible for causing harm as it’s time they’re held accountable for their unlawful actions. He says that his words are those reflected by thousands of New Yorkers who can no longer see the youth suffer in silence.
One rep for the popular social media app TikTok explained how adding safeguards to an industry that’s already leading can really shape up society and the city, transforming it into something worth a glance.
TikTok says it’s well aware of how the youth enjoys using the app the most and putting the right age restrictions out there is necessary and parental control safeguards have always been one of its top priorities.
On the other hand, Android maker Google has refuted all of the claims on this front, adding how such allegations are not true.
They hope to give the youth the best services in terms of education, entertainment, and beyond, without any kind of compromise involved. They spoke about entering into a collaboration with mental health specialists and experts so that only those who are age-appropriate can benefit from robust controls in place.
Meanwhile, Facebook’s parent firm Meta says it allocated close to a decade of its time to work on such issues and hopes to give teenagers the safest and age-appropriate endeavors seen online. Today, they’ve got close to 30 different tools to provide support, not to mention the best parental controls too.
Snapchat also defended itself by adding how it does not open to a new content feed. Instead, it opens to a camera through direct means and has no classic public likes or even comments that others entail.
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Eric Adams who is the Mayor of NYC recently confirmed how his respective admin filed the case against the parent firms of TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat. The lawsuit alleges that young adults are at great risk of serious harm to those located in the mega American city.
The plaintiffs included educational institutions in the city and district as well as a host of health firms that rolled out the case in the county of Los Angeles as mentioned by the Superior Court in California as such organizations have ties linked to the region as mentioned by attorneys in this recent case filing.
The mayor of NYC adds how each tech firm knew really well what it was doing and what its actions were capable of. They knowingly created, operated, marketed, and distributed the apps to better attract and make the youth addicted to their systems, ensuring parental oversight was nowhere to be seen.
The plaintiffs alleged how the tech firms ended up violating a host of city laws linked to public nuisance as well as massive negligence on the parts of those running the firms. To carry on designing and promoting such products that were addictive in nature was certainly slammed.
Meanwhile, many are said to have greatly suffered a host of negative mental health effects that arose from these popular apps on social media.
In the past 10 years, many have witnessed how addictive things taking place in the online world could be. Moreover, kids are being to non-stop streams of content that are deemed dangerous and could fuel national youth into entering into a major mental health dilemma.
Adams mentioned in his recently published statement how he hopes to take serious action against those responsible for causing harm as it’s time they’re held accountable for their unlawful actions. He says that his words are those reflected by thousands of New Yorkers who can no longer see the youth suffer in silence.
One rep for the popular social media app TikTok explained how adding safeguards to an industry that’s already leading can really shape up society and the city, transforming it into something worth a glance.
TikTok says it’s well aware of how the youth enjoys using the app the most and putting the right age restrictions out there is necessary and parental control safeguards have always been one of its top priorities.
On the other hand, Android maker Google has refuted all of the claims on this front, adding how such allegations are not true.
They hope to give the youth the best services in terms of education, entertainment, and beyond, without any kind of compromise involved. They spoke about entering into a collaboration with mental health specialists and experts so that only those who are age-appropriate can benefit from robust controls in place.
Meanwhile, Facebook’s parent firm Meta says it allocated close to a decade of its time to work on such issues and hopes to give teenagers the safest and age-appropriate endeavors seen online. Today, they’ve got close to 30 different tools to provide support, not to mention the best parental controls too.
Snapchat also defended itself by adding how it does not open to a new content feed. Instead, it opens to a camera through direct means and has no classic public likes or even comments that others entail.
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