An 8-year-old was on cloud nine. He uploaded a video of himself playing games with his friends for the first time on YouTube. He even sang a song, "Seals, seals have to be. Juggling fish..."
Kaylee Glenmills' (20) cheerfulness didn't last long. At 10, Kaylee cursed her own body. "I look so fat." At 12, she composed a song called "The Gathering of Sad Girls" and uploaded it to YouTube. When asked what she was fighting against at the time, Kaylee replied, "Depression." She even self-harmed when her depression was severe.
“It's heartbreaking to see such a lovely child belittle herself. Mark Rainiere (Kaylee's lawyer) said, 'You don't look fat at all. And children shouldn't think that way,' and the courtroom fell silent."
Yang Soo-seok, an American lawyer, represented the victims in the "Kaylee v. Meta & Google" case last March, which was the first in the world to recognize the responsibility of social media (SNS) companies for youth addiction. He and about 20 lawyers from 12 law firms spent several months trying to prove the addiction liability of the two companies. Finally, on March 25th (local time), a jury of 12 at the Los Angeles Superior Court ruled that the companies were liable for damages and ordered them to pay Kaylee a total of $6 million (including $3 million in punitive damages).
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Facebook and Google lost. It seems like it will have an impact. I wonder what will happen to SNS in the future.
If it's Google, it would be talking about YouTube, right?
▶ Original source: https://news.nate.com/view/20260728n01758
