Meta’s staffers found evidence that some parents understood they were producing content for other adults’ sexual gratification as your way to wave your hands past what Meta is doing here.

Dope - do you think Meta and Instagram should restrict the ability of parents to post this content? Do you think that such restrictions would be allowed under the Texas legislation that was before SCOTUS today?

This is exactly the content that causes the most arguments about online censorship. Not illegal, and which overlaps considerably with utterly innocuous content. It's the context of the content which creates the potential for harm, and it's exceptionally difficult to come up with a way to police that without exactly the type of Trust and Safety infrastructure that conservatives detest about social media companies.

So - what's your take? Is this something that we let parents decide for themselves and their children, even though that means that there's a non-trivial chance that some parent(s) may end up causing harm to their kids? Or is it something that we empower the Tech Giants to decide for themselves what they want to allow, even though much (most?) of the content they end up banning is not harmful?

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