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California Parents Could Soon Sue for Social Media Addiction
By ADAM BEAM, Related Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California may quickly maintain social media corporations chargeable for harming kids who’ve turn out to be hooked on their merchandise, allowing dad and mom to sue platforms like Instagram and TikTok for as much as $25,000 per violation below a invoice that handed the state Meeting on Monday.
The invoice defines “dependancy” as youngsters below 18 who’re each harmed — both bodily, mentally, emotionally, developmentally or materially — and who wish to cease or scale back how a lot time they spend on social media however they can not as a result of they’re preoccupied or obsessive about it.
Enterprise teams have warned that if the invoice passes, social media corporations would probably stop operations for kids in California slightly than face the authorized danger.
The proposal would solely apply to social media corporations that had no less than $100 million in gross income up to now 12 months, showing to take purpose at social media giants like Fb and others that dominate {the marketplace}.
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It could not apply to streaming companies like Netflix and Hulu or to corporations that solely supply e mail and textual content messaging companies.
“The period of unfettered social experimentation on kids is over and we’ll defend youngsters,” mentioned Assemblymember Jordan Cunningham, a Republican from San Luis Obispo County and creator of the invoice.
Monday’s vote is a key — however not closing — step for the laws. The invoice now heads to the state Senate, the place it’ll endure weeks of hearings and negotiations amongst lawmakers and advocates. However Monday’s vote retains the invoice alive this 12 months.
The invoice provides social media corporations two paths to flee legal responsibility within the courts. If the invoice turns into regulation, it will take impact on Jan. 1. Corporations that take away options deemed addictive to kids by April 1 wouldn’t be chargeable for damages.
Additionally, corporations that conduct common audits of their practices to establish and take away options that could possibly be addictive to kids could be immune from lawsuits.
Regardless of these provisions, enterprise teams have opposed the invoice. TechNet, a bipartisan community of expertise CEOs and senior executives, wrote in a letter to lawmakers that if the invoice turns into regulation “social media corporations and on-line net companies would haven’t any alternative however to stop operations for teenagers below 18 and would implement stringent age-verification as a way to be certain that adolescents didn’t use their websites.”
“There isn’t any social media firm not to mention any enterprise that would tolerate that authorized danger,” the group wrote.
Lawmakers appeared prepared to vary the a part of the invoice that permits dad and mom to sue social media corporations, however none provided an in depth different. As an alternative, supporters urged their colleagues to move the invoice on Monday to proceed the dialog in regards to the challenge within the state Capitol.
Assemblymember Ken Cooley, a Democrat from Rancho Cordova, mentioned as a lawyer he usually opposes payments that create extra alternatives for lawsuits. However he mentioned lawmakers should “change the dynamics of what’s surrounding us, surrounding our youngsters.”
“Now we have to do one thing,” he mentioned. “If it would not end up proper we will modify as we go alongside.”
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Eagles singer Don Henley filed a lawsuit in New York on Friday (June 28) seeking the return of his handwritten notes and song lyrics from the band’s 1976 album Hotel California.
The civil complaint filed in Manhattan federal court comes after prosecutors in March abruptly dropped criminal charges midway through a trial against three collectibles experts accused of scheming to sell the documents.
The Eagles co-founder has maintained the pages were stolen and had vowed to pursue a lawsuit when the criminal case was dropped against rare books dealer Glenn Horowitz, former Rock & Roll Hall of Fame curator Craig Inciardi and rock memorabilia seller Edward Kosinski.
“These 100 pages of personal lyric sheets belong to Mr. Henley and his family, and he has never authorized defendants or anyone else to peddle them for profit,” Daniel Petrocelli, Henley’s lawyer, said in an emailed statement Friday.
According to the lawsuit, the handwritten pages remain in the custody of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, which declined to comment Friday on the litigation.
Lawyers for Kosinski and Inciardi dismissed the legal action as baseless, noting the criminal case was dropped after it was determined that Henley misled prosecutors by withholding critical information.
“Don Henley is desperate to rewrite history,” Shawn Crowley, Kosinski’s lawyer, said in an emailed statement. “We look forward to litigating this case and bringing a lawsuit against Henley to hold him accountable for his repeated lies and misuse of the justice system.”
Inciardi’s lawyer, Stacey Richman, said in a separate statement that the lawsuit attempts to “bully” and “perpetuate a false narrative.”
A lawyer for Horowitz, who isn’t named as a defendant as he doesn’t claim ownership of the materials, didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.
During the trial, the men’s lawyers argued that Henley gave the lyrics pages decades ago to a writer who worked on a never-published Eagles biography and later sold the handwritten sheets to Horowitz. He, in turn, sold them to Inciardi and Kosinski, who started putting some of the pages up for auction in 2012.
The criminal case was abruptly dropped after prosecutors agreed that defense lawyers had essentially been blindsided by 6,000 pages of communications involving Henley and his attorneys and associates.
Prosecutors and the defense said they received the material only after Henley and his lawyers made a last-minute decision to waive their attorney-client privilege shielding legal discussions.
Judge Curtis Farber, who presided over the nonjury trial that opened in late February, said witnesses and their lawyers used attorney-client privilege “to obfuscate and hide information that they believed would be damaging” and that prosecutors “were apparently manipulated.”
When thinking about vacations in Southern California, destinations such as Los Angeles, San Diego and Palm Springs may come to mind.
However, according to Airbnb, none of the three – or maybe any SoCal city you are thinking of – ranked among their top ten trending destinations for this year’s Fourth of July weekend.
That would be Lancaster.
The short and long-term rental service’s list of trending July 4 weekend destinations includes locations renowned for scenic landscapes (such as Cle Elum, Washington and Saratoga Springs, New York) and others known for significant Fourth of July celebrations (Marshfield, Massachusetts and Sanibel Island, Florida) in addition to desirable locations as picked by potential renters themselves.
Airbnb’s top ten trending destinations for Fourth of July 2024 are:
- Pocono Township, Pennsylvania
- Saratoga Springs, New York
- Marshfield, Massachusetts
- Leadville, Colorado
- Bangor, Maine
- Lancaster, California
- Cle Elum, Washington
- Wenatchee, Washington
- Sanibel-Sanibel Island, Florida
- Fort Myers Beach, Florida
Breaking it down further, Airbnb found the “most wishlisted” home in each state; California’s was the Invisible House, located within Joshua Tree National Park.
A one-night stay at the Invisible House from July 7 to July 8 will cost $2,934 before taxes.
To view Airbnb’s list of trending towns and “most wishlisted” homes, click here.
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