New Mexico said it plans to ask the judge to order Meta to make changes including verifying users’ ages; redesigning its algorithm to promote quality content for minors; and ending autoplay and infinite scrolling for minors.
Just Meta, or all social media platforms that have these same features? The article is unclear as to whether this would become a law or just enforced against Meta.
A judge can’t make laws. Higher courts can set precedents about how existing laws are interpreted,but that isn’t happening here. The judgment will be specific to Meta.
I call bullshit. It will be some fine that the courts will think are high, and Facebook will laugh and write it off as a business expense.
It’s gotten to the point where even a reasonable fine would be too little to actually cause meaningful change. They’d feel a slight chill and think how that was weird, they thought they’d closed the window. We’d have to do something substantially consistent or substantially punitive.
