I doubt Instagram and YouTube are adding these “screen time analytics” and TikTok is making ads that encourage you to take a break from the app out of the kindness of their hearts and genuine concern for our wellbeing…. right? Is this a result of some kind of law, mandating that these kinds of features have to exist? Or does this actually help their business somehow?
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It’s pre-empting the law, just like how the video game industry formed the ESRB and voluntarily rated their own games.
There was a lot of real concern and hyperbolic nonsense when games like Mortal Kombat came out, and the industry was deeply concerned that punishing regulations and consumer backlash would come if they didn’t self-police.
Today social media companies are taking the same steps after seeing a rising tide of concerns among governments and parents.
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