"targetting 11 year olds feels like tobacco companies a couple decades ago (and today)"

████: "oh good, we're going after <13 year olds now?" ████: "zuck has been talking about that for a while" ████: "yeah it was gross the last time he mentioned it" ████: "im ok with hiring people, but targetting 11 year olds feels like tobacco companies a couple decades ago (and today)" ████: "like we're seriously saying 'we have to hook them young' here" ████: "well, to be fair, a lot of other services trying to compete with facebook explicitly target under-13's and create plausible deniability for knowing their age" ████: "yep, doesn't make it any better" ████: "won't we get sued due to COPPA or whatever?" ████: "explicitly called out" ████: "as being a challenge for regulatory reasons related to age verification and parental consent" ████: "that intern program is not a bad idea at all. theres a big diffference between trying to bring other demographics into good jobs vs trying to get a billion 11 year olds sharing selfies" ████: "can't wait to see the leaks on this one"