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Their kids died after buying drugs on Snapchat. Now the parents are suing
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
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"I will ask snapchat to stop doing bad things, but I will not delete their app from my kids smartphone. It's their responsibility, not mine"
Wait, so the parent knew about this issue for over eight months and did nothing to actually get their kid help?
Who said they didn't?
The fact that they still allowed their kid to have access to the drug dealing app/device that has the drug dealing app on it.
Or they removed it and then the kid put it back. Yes, they might have been able to take the device away entirely but that's not really effective, and the strong parental controls are only available for kids up to 13 (at least on Android).
That doesn't absolve Google or Apple for facilitating the download of the app where drug dealers frolic.