Seattle schools sue tech giants over social media harm

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Seattle Public Schools filed the lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court. The 91-page complaint says the social media companies have created a public nuisance by targeting their products to children.

It blames them for worsening mental health and behavioral disorders including anxiety, depression, disordered eating and cyberbullying; making it more difficult to educate students; and forcing schools to take steps such as hiring additional mental health professionals, developing lesson plans about the effects of social media, and providing additional training to teachers.

“Plaintiff is not alleging Defendants are liable for what third-parties have said on Defendants’ platforms but, rather, for Defendants’ own conduct,” the lawsuit said. “Defendants affirmatively recommend and promote harmful content to youth, such as pro-anorexia and eating disorder content.”

 

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Broadview Thompson elementary. What about that public nuisance debacle?

They give every middle schooler a computer with access to YouTube shorts and instruct them to bring them home each night.

Seattle schools teach kids to hate each other based on their race, gender confuse kids and lead them to sterilization and mutilation's care but they are suing big tech for hurting kids minds lol

Yet they left out twitter, truth social, discord, 4chan, 8chan and daily stormer. No way this is an RW smokescreen that has nothing to do with “keeping the kids safe”. Nope.

And Seattle Public Schools have created a public nuisance by brainwashing children with fringe-left programing instead of focusing on academics. When do they get killed?

Seattle doesn't understand cause and effect or just doesn't care. It's all about lashing out for emotional gratification

The only things that poison children in SSD: 1. Garbage food is served at lunchtime. 2. 80% of teachers have mental health problems.

My son got in trouble so I took his phone away, next day he comes home with a school tablet. Let the parents be parents.

dawnegray3 Another waste of money. Parents are responsible for what their children’s online access. Seattle public schools, like the left wing has systemic excuseism. They will blame others for their failure to educate.

Don’t forget to sue Nintendo and Playstation and movies and TV and music and …and… and…

What a waste of tax money. Bullying happens in person too, so can we sue the teachers and school district cause schools’ main audience is kids? I hope any court forces the school district to pay court costs for this

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