Legislation that would have allowed California officials to sue social media for promoting 'addictive' content to minors was quashed by the state Senate.
Legislation that would have allowed California officials to sue social media for promoting"addictive" content to minors was quashed by the state Senate.
The legislation, which would have allowed the state attorney general, district attorneys, and parents to hold social media companies liable for features they consider addictive, was killed in the state Senate's appropriations committee on Thursday. Several social media companies, including Meta, Twitter, and Snap, supported the end of this legislation.
"I am extremely disappointed," said California Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham, one of the bill's sponsors."The bill's death means a handful of social media companies will be able to continue their experiment on millions of California kids, causing generational harm.
The bill was introduced on March 15 by state Assembly members Buffy Wicks, a Democrat, and Cunningham, a Republican. The bill was filed with the hope of forcing tech companies to"bear some of the social costs that they put on all of our children," Cunningham said, according to the Wall Street Journal.
If the bill had passed into law, social platforms could be considered liable if they"developed, designed, implemented, or maintained features that were known, or should have been known, by the platform to be addictive to child users," according to the bill's text.The bill also adopts a vague definition of addiction.
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