When a jury convicts a corporation injuring children on purpose for profit, Congress sometimes acts. But if so, will the Social Media giants manage to pull the "preemption" trick, and convince Congress to erect a federal umbrella of protection to replace what's been lost with the demise of Section 230 immunity? Let us pray otherwise.

I'm Charles Carreon, punklawyer, and this is my fifth video about the KGM versus Medi-case, the big verdict in Los Angeles for Meta and YouTube causing injury to a minor due to the addictive algorithms that sucked her into all kind of bad psychological conditions. Now, what comes after lawsuits is usually a social reckoning. At the point when a jury and the judicial system establish that a wrong has been committed, oftentimes Congress has stepped up to address the problem and thus we will begin to hear that dreaded word, regulation. What's regulation likely to look like Assuming that Congress does in fact find its ass with both hands and do something for the nation's citizens instead of the citizens of other countries in the Middle East

So yeah, we've got state pressure coming from attorney generals. We have lawsuits at the state level and we have state level legislative proposals.
There's enough bad stuff happening to kids that legislators in state houses around the country are beginning to come up with ideas for how to regulate social media. And of course, everybody's heard about how in Australia now, you think you have to be 18 to access social media. Future legislation in this country might include things like duty of care standards for minors, establishing that social media companies have a duty to address the needs of minors and incorporate restrictions like eliminate that infinite scroll and reduce / limit push notifications, have some transparency requirements and independent audits of social media entities so that they don't just skirt laws like they've been skirting all this time the law intended to regulate youth access to their product.

The critical issue is will the social media giants manage to turn federal law into a protective umbrella through preemption and obtain a limitation on what states can do to protect their people? Let us hope not, as that is a big, big problem. What we need to do is keep state remedies available and get some reasonable national control over it through federal law. But even if Congress acts, these lawsuits aren't going away. And you may have such a lawsuit because hundreds of millions of people have been injured by this conduct. And if you do, maybe we should talk.