Post #785454
2026-03-20 13:53 UTC
You are misleading yourself.
Consider a vehicle. We understand that there is a threshold of age and responsibility to operating a vehicle safely, but we don’t hold the vehicle manufacturer responsible for driver error if the driver is under the age of licensing.
You are suggesting that an os maker can be held responsible for user decisions, which is both unenforceable and legally unsound.
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@1dalm@lemmy.today 2026-03-20 14:10
Correct. Right now the OS maker is not responsible. That exactly why Meta is pushing so hard to change the laws to make them responsible. Your analogy is a good analogy. In your car analogy, today, no one blames the car manufacturer for a drunk driver, but we do blame bars and bar tenders. In many states, bars have to be licensed and if the bar tender allows some one to get drunk and drive home the bar and the bar tender can be held liable. This situation would be like if bars got together to lobby state and national governments to make it so that the car manufacturers had to install breathalyzers in every car so that the bars could reduce their liability and responsibility.