tommikele

InspiredCode said:

Although the mother is in part to blame, there really should be upper limits on the amount an app is allowed to collect for virtual currency. 

Limits or lack thereof have nothing to do with this. She should not get some of the blame as you say. She should get 100% of the blame. The idea Apple or the developer is responsible is almost offensive.

She left a six year old unattended for months on end and it took months for her to pay attention to the credit card charges. She must have some load of money to not notice until it got well over $10k. $2500 in one day.Who did she think was running up the bills? The husband/partner? Seriously.

I get what you are saying ... Wow. 

100% Mom's fault. At first, I was a little sympathetic and started to think maybe Apple should give her a partial break. Then I read what she said. Apple should double the amount of the charges the kid wracked up.

She has got to have two pretty big ones to blame Apple for her complete failure to stay one step ahead of a six-year old. A SIX-YEAR OLD child!

Apple has and provides more tools for parental control than anyone else and they promote the tools and are constantly refining and publicizing them.

The kid is a lot smarter than the mother.

Wilton, CT is a very affluent and well-off town in Fairfield County. It takes significant money to live there and it's a place a lot of very well-off NYC people are flocking to these towns. Popular place if you have a lot of money and want out of NYC.

ro_ro_ur_boat said:

The current culture of social media is they do censor conservatives and when the liberals say the same thing, it’s ok. Social media companies can’t be both commons and publishers. If your a publisher you can censor, but if you’re a commons and censor it then you’re infringing on people’s constitutional rights. 

I believe that the bill is making sure that if tech companies behaves like a publisher, then they should be treated as such and can’t claim they are commons. 

You believe wrong. And you somehow think this only applies to what you would call "liberals."

Do you realize Fox, NewsMax, OAN, Rush Limbaugh, etc. would likely suffer far more than your dreaded liberals?

Horrible bill with little chance of passing.

Several comments above cheering this on. I can almost guarantee those people have no idea of the effects this would have across the board.

There are many ways to accomplish responsibility and moderation on social media websites. This is not one of them. Support of this particular proposal can only come from ignorance and a lack of knowledge. This is not how you make big tech and FB responsible. It would be a complete and utter disaster.

Besides, McConnell will never allow a vote and Biden would never sign it. Grandstanding by politicians who want to pile on and burnish their resume for 2022 elections by falsely claiming all the great things they did for Americans. What a load of pure BS.

Desperate people will do and say anything on an attempt to blame someone else for their failure.