"Virginia just make a sizeable inroad to to being able to sue the company. 29 News has coverage: A Virginia judge ruled Friday that Attorney General Jason Miyares' lawsuit against TikTok and its China-based parent company, ByteDance Ltd., will proceed in Richmond City Circuit Court...the court stated Miyares' complaint contained sufficient allegations of multiple violations of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act."
"The suit makes a couple of claims worth mentioning. One claim is that TikTok is intentionally designed to be addictive to adolescents. That should just be taken as a given. In the social media market, websites and applications are known for using gamification tactics to arrest as much attention as possible: if you didn't read former Facebook president Sean Parker's assessment of social media addictiveness back in 2017, read it and then factor in another eight years of apps perfecting the process."
Virginia's attorney general filed a lawsuit alleging multiple violations of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act by TikTok and ByteDance. A Richmond City Circuit Court judge ruled the case may proceed, finding sufficient allegations. The suit alleges TikTok is intentionally engineered to be addictive to adolescents, deceptively presents itself as appropriate for users over 12, and conceals its connection to potential manipulation by the Chinese Communist Party. The claims reference social media gamification tactics and past statements about platform addictiveness. The federal political context includes efforts to treat foreign-adversary-controlled apps as national security risks and parallel legislative pressure.
Read at Above the Law
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