To the editor: As an advocate of free speech as assured by the first Modification, I disagree with the jury’s verdict, and am very involved for the way forward for web freedom (“Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube have been designed to addict children,” March 25).
I don’t know what the plaintiff’s early historical past was that would have contributed to the psychological issues she described, however I do know one factor: Social media firms are definitely not chargeable for that.
I’m not speaking simply concerning the plaintiff on this case. It’s the job of fogeys to show their youngsters the distinction between proper and incorrect, and domesticate in them a powerful will to keep away from addictive behaviors. Mother and father have to keep watch over their youngsters’s viewing actions and set the boundaries. As youngsters flip into youngsters, they need to be studying to set their very own limits.
On the finish of the day, people want to have the ability to resist incorrect or unsuitable behaviors on their very own. This contains not simply “unhealthy” speech, but additionally authorities overreach in lots of areas.
Alice Lillie, Pomona
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To the editor: I couldn’t agree extra with visitor contributor Daniel Katz (“Social media platforms aren’t the brand new cigarettes. They’re worse,” March 25). Social platforms are worse than cigarettes and I’d prefer to see the platforms and the businesses that run them face penalties and bans like cigarette firms.
No use in sure public locations. Certain, that one will probably be arduous to police as a result of anybody on their cellphone in a restaurant can say they’re texting a buddy, nevertheless it’s a begin. Get the ban on the books so public notion of those platforms goes the best way of Large Tobacco. And the way a few warning label anytime a person pulls up one among these websites? “Warning: This web site is understood to be probably hazardous to your well being. Proceed with excessive warning.”
And should the lawsuits and financial judgments proceed.
Craig Rosen, Los Angeles
