In the span of just 48 hours this week, two separate juries in two different US states delivered verdicts that could reshape the entire social media industry — not because of the dollar amounts involved, but because of what those verdicts legally establish for the first time. On Tuesday, March 24, a jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $375 million for failing to protect children from sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram. Less than 24 hours later, on Wednesday, March 25, a jury in Los Angeles found both Meta and Google (YouTube) liable for engineering addiction in young users — finding them negligent in the design of their platforms and awarding a further $6 million in damages. Two days. Two states. Two juries. Both pointing at the same conclusion: that Big Tech can no longer hide behind the legal shields it has relied on for nearly three decades. This is the story of what happened, why it matters far beyond the headline numbers, and what comes next for the s...
Occupy has definitely become a Meme and each person is using it in their own ways to convey their message. The central them running through the occupy meme is to go someplace and protest by occupying it. The occupy meme is closely linked to Occupy Wall Street but it has meaning that can cross over boundaries and meanings. There has been religious memes on the net saying Jesus was the first occupy wall street protester in history. Now with Occupy The URL you can occupy any website you want on the internet. A silent way of showing your support to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Plus it is also a fun thing to do. You can try it out now and see how you it occupies a website and says finally 'we are the 99%'. Nothing happens to the website you are occupying and it is just a collage of pics that mashup on the site to create an occupation. It is just a harmless bit of fun and can potentially become a huge internet meme. An original post by Sociolatte