MINNEAPOLIS — A University of Minnesota law professor described the case that Tik Tok has sucked children into visual addiction is built on legal theories that are reasonably new and novel. Alan Rozenshtein was asked by Minnesota Public Radio about a lawsuit field against Tik Tok by Minnesota’s attorney general, Keith Ellison. The legal challenge, Rozenshtein said, is proving that Tik Tok’s algorithms are addictive: “You have to establish that in fact, these platforms are dangerously designed, and inthat in fact that they cause harm, and that in fact there’s no good way of redesigning them.” Rozenshtein said he doesn’t see Ellison’s case as in any way a slam dunk.
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