Suit claims app features like disappearing messages and geolocating users make kids easy targets for dealers

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

  • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
    317·
    1 year ago

    Try watching your kids and stop letting them go blindly on the internet…

    • radix@lemm.eeEnglish
      201·
      1 year ago

      One of the victims described was only a few weeks away from graduating from university.

      • MooseLad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        266·
        1 year ago

        Somebody needs to teach kids about actual drug safety. Abstinence from drugs is a shitty program that doesn’t work and often, the speakers just lie. Opipids are horrible enough that you don’t have to make up lies about them. When kids find out they lied about weed, they start to wonder what else they were lied to about. I can understand 14 year olds being dumb, but people in their 20s should know better than to be buying opioids on Snapchat and Telegram.

        Also, I don’t see a way how Snapchat can possibly regulate this. Just like with Craigslist, criminals will use emoji and code words to sell drugs and get through language filters.

        • havokdj@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          1 year ago

          There are organizations that do this, it’s called harm reduction. Many people don’t listen to them because they state that the number one harm reduction technique is to not do them at all.

    • JoShmoe@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      You gotta find these people in the real world. People like that aren’t gonna be on lemmy or even know about it. Those types can’t get past the settings menu let alone understand FOSS.