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Their kids died after buying drugs on Snapchat. Now the parents are suing (www.theguardian.com)

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Their kids died after buying drugs on Snapchat. Now the parents are suing::Suit claims app features like disappearing messages and geolocating users make kids easy targets for dealers

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Um, there's a whole lot to escape from, even if their home life is functional.

We don't get to totally neglect kids and parenting as a society, except to funnel them towards becoming an interchangeable, disposable laborer / soldier in some machine working towards a billionaire vanity project or into prison where their options are worse, and then not expect them to want to escape.

If a teen is seeking out drug sales on Snapchat, that's a symptom that something is amiss, whether or not the platform is being misused.