Casey Newton

Yeah, I don't think the track record really would lead you to putting him in charge of that particular project.

again, like, and I think it's like important to underline this for folks to meta addiction looks like success.

They have huge teams inside the company, cognitive scientists who work to understand the human brain so that they can get you to pick up your phone and look at it as many times as possible.

And this is why I feel so bad for the people who are mad at themselves for all the time they spend looking at Instagram.

It's like, you were not in a fair fight.

Okay.

Like

You lost a rigged game.

And the reason that Meta is doing that is not because they're literally evil.

It's that they feel like the incentives of their business require them to do this.

So unless those incentives change, no, Neelay, Meta is not going to be the place to go to look for moral leadership on teen safety.

I agree that this is tricky and we should be careful.

And lawsuits are often not the best way to work through this stuff because just in general, I would rather have like lawmakers and policymakers writing really careful statements.

versions of this at the same time why is infinite scroll speech why are like streaks speech like why is like autoplay video speech like at a certain point i think you can get yourself all the way to like why do we make ford put seat belts on their car like that you're compelling speech it's like no you're compelling a seat belt like i think you should be able to compel product safety features once it becomes clear that you actually have a product safety issue now

Now, I should say, there are things that I would actually love to compel these platforms to do that are just obviously unconstitutional.

Like, I would love to compel them to show educational content to children in the same way that Congress once passed a law saying that broadcasters needed to provide at least three hours of educational programming a week.

I think that was really good for society.

Turned out, at least when you apply to social media, that's just obviously unconstitutional.

So I do think that you have to be really careful here.

But if you're going to tell me that every single product feature of every social media app is speech, you truly are caping for these platforms in a way that it makes me uncomfortable.