A legal or documented case · 2024 · Legislation
The year of the lawsuits
A wave of cases against companion and social platforms, with the design itself named as the cause.
The first time a design decision - making attachment work on purpose - was treated as the actionable wrong, rather than the behaviour of a user being treated as it. The shift in who is the defendant is the whole history of this lane in miniature.
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