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According to docs, Amy and Aaron Neville, plus a handful of other parents who lost their children to a similar fate, are suing Snapchat -- saying it "facilitates the overwhelming majority of lethal fentanyl sales."
The docs say Snap's process for disabling known dangerous accounts on the platform is broken ... saying "Snap provides no reporting mechanism, staffed email address, or even a phone number for users to report underage, dangerous, or violating use of its social media product."
The lawsuit also alleges Snap is specifically designed to attract children and illicit activity, pointing to the features like disappearing messages that make it hard to trace illegal drug transactions that may go down on the app.
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Amy's now the VP of Void -- a nonprofit that fights against the spread of illegal drugs like fentanyl -- and her org recently claimed social media companies across the board aren't doing enough to cut off the connection between kids and dealers.
She's said the access to drugs through the app was way too easy ... believing Alexander wouldn't have put himself in a situation that was in person -- but dealing behind a screen made it much simpler.
Snapchat's recently said it's been working to address the issue ... doubling down on efforts to ban drug dealer accounts and blocking search results that involve drug keywords. The plaintiffs are seeking damages, as well as for stricter action to be taken on the platform to help prevent any more fatalities in the future.
A rep for Snap tells us, "The trafficking of fake prescription pills containing fentanyl is an urgent national crisis. We are devastated that these counterfeit drugs have taken the lives of so many people, and our hearts go out to families who have suffered unimaginable losses. We are committed to bringing every resource to bear to help fight this national crisis, both on Snapchat and across the tech industry overall."
The rep says the company uses, "cutting-edge technology to proactively find and shut down drug dealers’ accounts, and we block search results for drug-related terms, instead redirecting Snapchatters to resources from experts about the dangers of fentanyl."
The rep also says the app offers "in-app and online reporting tools through our Support Site that make it easy for people to report any concerning content to our 24/7 Trust and Safety team to investigate." As well as, "tools for parents to give them insight into who their teens are friends with and talking to on Snapchat, and allow them to also report any content directly to us."
Sources TMZ
I’ve been on Snapchat, facebook, Instagram my while life and I have never wanted to get drugs off anybody there. And I knew who were dealers. My parents didn’t raise me that way. How about instead of blaming social media, spend more time with your kids and teach them good values
ReplyDeleteSame applies the ones who blame Mexico or cartels...
DeleteThis kid’s parents are rich and white, so since this happened to their sheltered family, the housewife now has something to do. Unfortunately they are blaming everyone but themselves and their kid.
Delete12:43 right. Who do we blame the supplier or the one who buys it
DeleteWhat does wanting to experiment with drugs have to do with good values? Sounds like your values are ironically pretty shitty if this is your conclusion.
Delete1:14 This was 2 years ago. People hadn’t yet caught full wind at that point of the fact that 99.99% of street pills are fake fentanyl pressies. I would only blame the user (somewhat) if it was like this year (2022) or after. In 2020 it was still a pretty newish thing.
Delete3:25 You can think whatever, I don’t care. But I’m still alive that’s all that matters to me
Delete4:16 You being alive literally does not matter one bit when it comes to the subject of casual drug experimentation. The kid is only dead because the drug he actually wanted to take wasn’t available. He was fooled into taking an ultra potent opioid that is sometimes fatal even in the microgram range. If he was out there intentionally trying to get fucked up on fentanyl then yeah sure I would question him and his values and even intelligence but him just thinking he’s taking 10 to 20 or 30 mg of oxycodone or a few milligrams of Xanax does not warrant the view that his parents did something wrong or that he had bad values. That’s like comparing a teenager who casually tries weed to another teenager who huffs paint or something. All one of these is problematic and concerning the other is remarkably ordinary.
DeleteStop oversimplifying something as complex an issue as psychoactive drugs. That’s why people are dying in droves because morons are oversimplifying everything about it.
6:09 cause it’s simple 😂 just don’t do drugs. You’re f*cking up the activity in your neurotransmitters. My parents always told me drugs f*ck with your brain. If they hadn’t reminded me over and over I knew I would have tried them. Morons try to find who to blame things on before checking themselves. That’s why people are dying. Instead of sitting down in front of a screen, and try to prove points that are irrelevant
Delete8:41 You’re not “fucking up “activity in the neurotransmitters or receptors you’re simply changing its normal activity. There’s nothing medically you can point to that is inherently problematic or unhealthy about using psychoactive drugs which affect the receptors and you’re being an idealist by refusing to take the pragmatic approach and realize that people are going to do drugs either way whether legal, illegal or both. Define what “drugs” even means here because I don’t even know what you people mean when you say that. If it was real oxycodone or Xanax he would be fine so how is your argument going to be “well just don’t do drugs” when he would’ve been fine if the drugs were real which he thought they were? There only seems to be a select few specific drug chemicals which are actually the problem. Not drugs altogether.
Delete“My parents always told me drugs f*ck with your brain. If they hadn’t reminded me over and over I knew I would have tried them.“
What does your parents lying to you repeatedly and you being naïve enough and conformist enough to believe them have to do with anything? This was before all street pills being laced with fentanyl was officially the norm. You’re missing every point imaginable.
12:45 😂 you’re funny. If anybody is lying to themselves is you. If I keep replying I’m the dumb one. This is my first time replying to anybody on here, when you start living in the real world maybe it will be worth having a nice civilized debate with you. May your god be with you
Delete12:45 forgot to add the time. You can reply if you want, I’m going back to living my life
Delete@10.28 Congratulations. You have been on Snapchat, Insta and Facebook your entire life but never felt the need to buy drugs because your parents made you morally superior to this poor kid. I hate it when people comment on a tragedy like this by saying that they too use social media, but resist the temptation to be evil. Its the same logic that gets comfortable, loved, supported people who are cash-poor (but rich in every other way that matters) to pat themselves on the back and shout from the rooftops that they suffered the same thing but THEY never did this terrible thing that other poor people do. The parents are grieving, and the target of their anger might be misplaced, but if you are seriously suggesting that better parenting would have prevented this you are a callous fool.
DeleteWhy not take the phone companies to court also?
ReplyDeleteThey allowed the teen to have a conversation with the dealer after the kid found him online.
These are the so called freedoms this country has now. Anything happens to your dumbass or your spoiled brats and sue everyone and make it more expensive or harder for others to obtain these services.
Bunch of morons nowadays.
10:28 bunch of morons will get judgements or settlements.
Deleteafter a while you will get your beloved services for free and everybody will be a winner.
Blaming Parents who are the last persons trying to profit off their children is a lowly attempt to blame somebody else for the greed of a few traficantes.
Fucking parents are trying to profit off their fuckin mistakes raising a fuckin moron.
DeleteWho care about the traticantes greed in this case?
Pretty sure he's in jail already.
3:16 OK, you win,
Deletebe a pendejo...
@9:32
DeleteThat's the thing about you Americans.
You want to impose your B.S. mentality on the world.
10:15 I said you win motherfucker, who is trying to impose anything on your mother fucking ass?
DeleteIs it safe for a uk wheelchair user to visit Mexico? Cancun specifically.
ReplyDeleteDidn't you just read the post two days ago about the guy's trip to Cancun that got kidnapped? He almost wound up in a wheelchair.
DeleteYou'll be fine as long as you don't go wandering where you shouldn't, those zombies won't care what nationality you
Delete10:30 yes!
DeleteSpecially if you are wheelchair bound alreddy, in case they chop off your feet overthere, have fun.
What nationality you *are*
Delete10:59
DeleteBut this time a tourist in a wheelchair, wants to travel Cancun.
What is the worst that can happen to him? Nothing Mate.
Cancun honestly isn’t super safe these days, I wouldn’t. Also you guys always want to go to Cancun for some reason. Just, at least for the sake of originality please just go somewhere more interesting and less cliché like Puerto Vallarta or Oaxaca or even Mazatlan. I don’t understand all the hype behind Cancun, especially when people talk about going there over and over and over again every year. Sounds boring idk.
DeleteI have associates and family that go several times a year to Cancun and other parts of Mexico without problems. One of them went on a one month cross country trip in Mexico without issues.
Delete4:07 Dude go away. Your tone deaf anecdotal experience that lacks any real substantive point that you constantly keep repeating is like a cancer to this website
Delete@4:07 cool story? And how is that relevant? What conclusion am I supposed to draw from your statement exactly? that not 100% of tourists will die in Mexico? Real productive thinking mate..
Delete3:32 yep prefer the pacific coast as well
DeleteThanks for the advice guys 👨🦽
DeleteAnd when someone gets stabbed by a Ronco Showtime knife, Ronco gets sued right?
ReplyDeleteSame saying,...when a criminal with a gun shoots a man, let's sue the gun manufacturer.
Delete11:18 wonder if any phone companies will get sued for allowing service to dopeheads to call their dealer haha
Delete12:53 gun dealers have all that money, sue the motherfuckers, you could help them fund their defense, don't leave all the burden to Bladdermir Putin and the NRA...
Deletecriminals usually use illegally obtained weapons, then cry in court because "in their heart they didn't mean to harm anyone"
WoW. Once again people are trying to blame someone else for their failure to raise their family appropriately. As bad as it is social media are not the enemy based on peoples bad choices. It’s sucks that they don’t accept their mistakes.
ReplyDeleteLmao ok you but at, yeaaaahhhhhh “ it’s snapchats fault you couldn’t control your own child and let him run around and do hard drugs” lmfao, you rich entitled white folks always want to blame someone else except yourselves. You morons just can’t face the fact that it’s your fault he’s dead because you failed at parenting and instead let your child turn to hard drugs. Scumbag parents like this make me sick, own up and take responsibility for your actions. Stop playing the blame game you FAILURES, you FAILED Alexander as a parent and you FAILED yourself by letting it happenintbe first place. Scumbag pos “ parent” lmao clown
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like self-projecting
DeleteHow did this comment make it past the filters? It’d be one thing to say shit that is true but unhelpful however this is both untrue and unhelpful. Not to mention over the top and straight up uncalled for.
Delete1:44 the drug pushers' lobbyist keeps stirring his shit.
Delete@a 1.44 You are are a callous prick. How the fuck BB let this comment get thru is beyond me. Viciousness and cruelty is allowed, as long as you don't swear? Same thing happened recently with ''jokes'' about ''free blow'' for schoolkids, when they almost died. If you those comments up, then put up the comments that call them out, cos somebody has to.
DeleteIdiot useless parents using the pathetic excuse that something other than their shitty absent parenting got their kid killed. Maybe they should sue Mcdonalds or Walmart for being the place the kid met his dealer
ReplyDeleteGreat point!
Delete2:47 what did your parents do to you?
DeleteYou seem to hate all parents equally, but not every parent is like yours
The dead teens are stacking up to the sky! As an xpat I can say the only way out of the American cesspool culture and to fully protect your children is to leave America! Millions have and are planning to leave! The schools are a dangerous jungle filled with drugs and where bullying, rapes, robberies, assaults, attempted murder and mass murder are now the new normal! In 5 years this appalling new normal will be replaced by even more violence and drugs!
ReplyDeleteSo families should move to the U.K. where their kids can do coke, heroin, ketamine and nitrous instead? Escape the U.S. to get away from fentanyl? Is that what you’re suggesting?
DeleteLike the movie escape from New York.
DeleteThe number of Adderall and generic-equivalent prescriptions has been rising in recent years, according to figures from IQVIA, a data analytics company. Total prescriptions rose by about 16 percent, to 41.2 million last year from 35.5 million in 2019.
ReplyDeleteand then there are these drugs for The following table lists the stimulant and nonstimulant drugs available to treat ADHD symptoms:
Long-acting stimulants amphetamine and dextroamphetamine (Adderall XR, Mydayis)
amphetamine (Adzenys ER, Adzenys XR-ODT, Dyanavel XR)
methylphenidate (Adhansia XR, Aptensio XR, Concerta, Cotempla XR-ODT, Daytrana, Jornay PM, QuilliChew ER, Quillivant XR, Relexxi, Ritalin LA, and generics)
dexmethylphenidate (Focalin XR)
lisdexamfetamine (Vyvanse)
dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine, Dexedrine Spansules, and Xelstrym)
serdexmethylphenidate and dexmethylphenidate (Azstarys)
Short- and intermediate-acting stimulants dexmethylphenidate (Focalin)
methylphenidate (Ritalin, Ritalin SR, Methylin, and generics)
amphetamine and dextroamphetamine (Adderall)
amphetamine (Evekeo, Evekeo ODT)
dextroamphetamine (ProCentra, Zenzedi)
methamphetamine (Desoxyn)
Nonstimulants atomoxetine (Strattera)
guanfacine (Intuniv XR)
viloxazine (Qelbree)
clonidine ER (Kapvay)
And a myriad of drugs for childrens deptression and anxiety!
No wonder America has a drug addiction problem!
Then mix in alcoholism!
I know virtually no one who has access to Adderall. It’s not easy to get. Meth is way easier to get, hence why it’s such a huge problem. If addy was as commonplace as coke we wouldn’t be in the situation we’re currently in with methamphetamine.
DeleteWhats next?, Suing the internet provider? or a gas station?
ReplyDeleteFrivolous lawsuits !! Imagine a lawsuit against law enforcement for fentanly overdose
Delete3:19 suing mz or mencho
DeleteWhat’s next? Random commenters on the internet blaming parents for failing because their kids drank alcohol?
Delete5:48 u wrong buddy commenters on here blaming those parents for their stupidity not accepting they failed but choose to blame others..
DeleteIs always convenient having someone to blame.
DeleteHappily, none of these commenters who blame the parents will ever be on the jury which will decide this civil case.
ReplyDeleteYour hateful & disgusting vitriol & lack of any empathy betray your tiny I.Q.
You're just punk-ass keyboard clowns
& are probably ignored by everyone else in the real world. Have fun with your blow-up dolls, Losers!
Big mad!! Empathy has nothing to do with this. It's tragic. But blaming snapchat for this is just asinine.
DeleteI wish I could say they were just hateful but their true pathology is logical inconsistency. Alcohol is every bit as hard of a drug as these other things and yet I don’t see anyone saying someone’s parents failed them because their kid got drunk once or twice. Half of these people don’t even know what “hard drugs“ are or the social psychology behind casual drug experimentation.
DeleteWell getting drunk once or twice and overdosing and DYING off fentynal are on different ends of the spectrum. You're being pedantic
Delete6:28 It is not on the other side of the spectrum when it comes to behavior and actions of the user. These aren’t situations where kids are taking a dozen pills at once or being excessive. They’re oftentimes taking only ONE pill and that’s it. And it’s one pill that they think is something else legitimate like oxy which wouldn’t kill them. They’re taking it because they think it’s a pharmaceutical-grade properly measured out dosage. You keep ignoring that point and I’m gonna keep bringing it up the more you ignore it so you might as well give up on that front because it’s not gonna work. Fix your thinking before I have to go all cliché on you and remind everyone that facts and logic don’t care about your feelings.
DeleteIf I lace one beer or shot with enough fentanyl to kill somebody how is that different than this? Again with the logical inconsistency.. Taking one pill is still just taking one pill, and it being packed with an unsafe dosage of a ultra powerful opioid that is active in the microgram range instead of what it’s supposed to be is not the fault of the user who almost certainly just wanted to get high on 10 - 30mg of oxycodone.
@5.46. Maybe it is asinine. But the parents are grieving, their lives are probably disintegrating, so they are looking for answers, and possibly blaming something that may not be responsible. Meanwhile idiots on here are blaming the parents. Therefore a little empathy is in order- ie shutting the fuck up when it comes to judging peoples reactions to grief when you have no idea what they really think, and putting yourself in their shoes. It might be more appropriate.
DeleteThen we have a team of Lopez Obrador lawyers that want to sue the US manufacturers of guns, that have been used to kill people.
ReplyDeleteDid the gun manufacturer pull the trigger.
Or did the criminal behind the gun pull the trigger.
Sue happy grampa won't get a dime.
8:06 sometimes the pleasure of exhibiting your fundillo in court is good enough, there are no laws against weapons dealers cooking deals all over with justice departments and Law Enforcement Big Wigs to br able to get their paws on some of that drug dealing billions of dollars from cartels, of course, they know who they are dealing with and why, $$$
Delete10:07 Good morning Gibberish bro.
DeleteAnd we have the AMLO haters, with no other arguments than opinions and vague comments. ☺
Delete12:51 I see no one hating, stop throwing fake nonsense comments
Delete1:52 Bringing negative comments to the table with no other sources, links, or even explanation to support than an biased opinion, thats hating. Grow up or finish your GED.
Delete6:00 when they correct you in here, take it with a grain of salt, you have belittle anyone, that does not agree with your views. After all we are here making comments. Don't be a fool.
Delete@6.00 your a dork.
Delete12:31 / 8:45 given your answer can conclude that was hard to swallow right? ☺
DeleteThese “victims” look for anybody to blame. How about not popping street pills ? I mean anyone who has a tv or cellphone or any real life experience should know street pills are fent and it’s been like that.
ReplyDeleteNot in 2019/2020 dipshit. You act like this case was from yesterday. It was 2 years ago.
DeleteI started smoking weed at 14 these dumb ass kids doing fent at 14. It’s teens fault. I’ve never done fent fuck fent
ReplyDeleteYeah but I bet at 14 you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between synthetic weed aka spice or K2 or regular marijuana. Just like the pills they don't know if there the real deal or not.
DeleteThe kid obviously wasn’t trying to do fent on purpose. What’s wrong with you people?
DeleteThe kid thought he was ordering the real drug, but unfortunately the family found out the hard way, it had fentanyl.
DeleteKeep smoking. You're almost there.
ReplyDeleteDo Not Blame Victims
10:12 Do not blame the victims?, they are buying that shit by them selves...
DeleteSue the electric company as well. They provide the electricity for the phone
ReplyDeleteThis article is good news.
ReplyDeleteSocial media as a whole infuriates me because they have all become platforms for criminals to peddle poisonous drugs to Americans of all ages.
This is the USA!!!! What happened to RICO?!!!
The DoJ should raid and shut down all media companies guilty... Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, SnapChat, TikTok, YouTube, etc. etc.
FUCK ALL THE DOPE DEALERS
They (US government) have allowed this atrocity (Opioid Epidemic).
12:55 Ok, but leave GOOGLE.and You Tube alone.
DeleteShut down YouTube? Ok nutter
DeleteAll these social media companies sure can suppress info that does not for their neoliberal globalist agenda, laptop, Covid vac ineffectiveness, violent crime demographics, any use of firearms that protects or saves, political corruption (insider trading, favors and contracts for cushy jobs after leaving their office or admin position, think agency admins, generals, and every pos congress member ever). Say whatever non nuanced ignorant, racist shit about this poor family, but to pretend every shitbag who comments on BB didn’t make mistakes and try all kinds of substances as a child, or pretend that 14 year olds shouldn’t be protected from their inability to make good decisions, is a blatant liar and just being a dirtbag on the internet to make themselves feel better about their shit life. Why pretend like Snapchat amd every other social media isn’t a parasitic greedy entity that knowingly designed their platforms to damage the brains of users and get them hooked, so let’s not pretend that without suit they would do anything other than attempt to increase the time on platform from users and how to monetize users in as many ways as possible. All these cancerous platforms also provide fertile ground for cartels recruiting young people. Funny, I don’t hear the racist comments related to the parents of these Mexican kids who become sicario as as teens and end up cannon fodder for a horrible greedy commandante. People assume this kids parents have money, could be they raised money for the wife’s nonprofit. Jump all over this kid and his parents Bc you angry jealous minded morons want and excuse to be high and mighty. Not the same comments about kids in the us and Mexico who are criminals and gang bangers that murder, the assumption that one is poor is a pass for the worst behavior, but given a chance to show your hatred by assuming all sorts of things about this kid Bc he is white and thus open season is just gross. Let’s everyone know what type of people most of you are, small, bitter, petty, and deeply unhappy.
ReplyDeleteWhite people always blame others for their mistakes. If this kid was Latino we will not cry for his bad choices. If it was black they will blame the police.
ReplyDeleteNot really Hispanic people High school students are also overdosing on drugs.
DeleteStefanie Ramos died at 15, thanks to fentanyl laced drugs coming from Mexico.
3:48 Hispanics or not, they are americans. And when it comes to deaths, asians, blacks and Hispanics are not on top of statistics. It is irrelevant where drugs are coming from. Why authorities allow to be distributed?
Delete12:49 lol it is irrelevant where drugs come from, you got to be a 12 year old reddit kid for sure, gag me with a spoon.
Delete1:50 If not Mexico will be ANY other country, boy.
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