Buffalo Shooting Survivors Sue Social Media & Gun Companies
Buffalo Shooting Survivors Sue Social Media & Gun Companies
Survivors and a family member of a victim of the mass shooting at Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York are suing social media platforms, gun companies, and the shooter's parents.
Buffalo Shooting Survivors Sue Social Media & Gun Companies::Survivors and a family member of a victim of the mass shooting at Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York are suing social media platforms, gun companies, and the shooter's parents.
I'm okay with that.
Car companies only implemented safety features after lawsuits came. Safety rose and fatalities dropped.
Are you suggesting this was caused by an accident due to insufficient safety devices?
This one? Not sure. Others? Definitely.
There’s studies showing that the gun industry doesn’t evolve like other markets due to laws giving them immunity. Normally the industry would add safety features like built in trigger locks ( fingerprint sensors or NFC ring that’s required to fire) but without the motivation they’re not adding them.
It seems kinda nuts. But if everyone sued everyone every time there was a mass shooting, things might actually start happening to minimize their frequency.
Or judges will just start throwing out the cases.
Probably that.
It’s the people vs the shooter. And let’s be honest, eventually the people of the USA is at least as guilty of this and all the other crimes like this as the actual shooter.
the only thing to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a lawsuit
According to the lawsuits, YouTube and Reddit “transformed and addicted” Gendron and prepared him for the attack on Tops market.
I'd like to see what they're actually claiming.
I dunno about reddit but it's no secret that YouTube will push you down a rabbit hole with their algorithm. Watch one video popular with right wing people and suddenly everything is about "Jewish space lasers" and "antifa coming to murder you"
Start suing for this and see mental health screenings pop up everywhere. Especially if you're suing gun shops directly. But the social media part means that us lemmings need to keep an eye on our platform for things like this. Least we garner the gaze of The Eye. If this becomes a precedent that is.
Holy word salad Batman.
I really hate these kind of lawsuits, while yes what happened fucking sucks I feel like this always leads to repeal section 230 bullshit. I feel like we need to realize that having all eggs in one basket for social media is bad and decentralization is better. Secondly if section 230 was repealed the extremism excuse could be used to shut down anarchist mastodon instances