{"id":12287,"date":"2022-08-13T14:53:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T14:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/13\/california-ban-on-addictive-social-media-fails\/"},"modified":"2022-08-13T14:53:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T14:53:39","slug":"california-ban-on-addictive-social-media-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/13\/california-ban-on-addictive-social-media-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"California ban on \u2018addictive\u2019 social media fails"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/12\/23302990\/california-ab2408-social-media-children-addiction-bill<\/a>
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A proposal to let parents sue over addictive social media features failed in the California legislature this week. The bill, AB 2408, failed to pass out of committee<\/a> for a full state Senate vote. It at least temporarily ends a controversial push to increase liability for social media in the state \u2014 an increasingly common practice among legislators.<\/p>\n

AB 2408<\/a>, or the Social Media Platform Duty to Children Act, was one of numerous state-level social media proposals<\/a>. It would have authorized civil penalties against social networks whose designs caused a \u201cchild user … to become addicted to the platform,\u201d either by design or in a way the operators should have known was harmful. It would not have applied to social networks that generate less than $100 million annually or are primarily intended for video games.<\/p>\n

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