A historical ruling from the Los Angeles court. They say that often to make a good title, but was it really like that? An American girl of twenty years had denounced Instagram and You tube for digital dependence, anxiety, depression. The aforementioned court had condemned Meta and Google to a maxi compensation because design and algorithms had been designed to create dependence on young people. The historicity of the sentence was moving the focus from use to structure. As always, the rulings are a starter.
Then came the case of New Mexico and other mega causes where Zuckerberg and its platforms first accepted the trial challenge and then, instead, accepted a mega plea deal with 48 American states for a very high figure, 18 billion dollars. What matters is not here the money, though. It counts that it is recognized that the machine itself of social is created, thought, drawn, structured to induce a series of psychological and neurological phenomena in the young generations, a gene that now alerts the whole Western world. Now in fact, these news will affect that great regulatory yard that is in European place, the Digital Services Act, with its national falls, Italy included.
We are already discussing prohibitions at school and France on prohibitions before the age of 16. Europe has always been chasing on the level of communication technologies, back on the industrial and rigid level on the normative plane as a form of reward of a historical defect. It is now the same America that gives the cultural way to an inevitable revision of a power that has become without control, not in all cases but in too many cases, from fakes, addictions, compulsive cognitive forms, models of life, political choices, the obsession of marketing.
The sea does not gather with a spoon but if everyone always does its part the revolutions are always possible, always when we find that the States are still, not by chance, the greatest democracy in the world, full of weights and counterweights. And that man knows everything, philosophically, is still there and that his critical spirit has not yet been swallowed up by an algorithm.
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