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60 Parents Have Banded Together to Sue Snapchat Over Safety Concerns

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0:00 was allegedly like this big and allegedly the whole thing was like was like this like was allegedly this big now we sound suspicious imagine there's a detective watching this from your case back then going got [Music] him is anybody here still use Snapchat at all oh sometimes only with friends though yeah is it just to have like conversations that you want not on the record like like send no it's literally the fastest way to like send uh like nudes no I'm just kidding stupid it's just literally my girlfriend's just sending random like random videos and random pictures and that's it for no reason yeah okay I use it at all yeah I feel like I don't really meet a lot of people that use it anymore I just flash my wife now I don't really send her any dick pics anymore you flash your wife on Snapchat no just in person I feel like once you reach 21 and

0:51 you still have Snapchat like you're in embarrassment I still have Snapchat I just don't use it I still use Snapchat my bad half embarrassing so there's a there's 's a big law shoot right now a bunch UH 60 parents have banded together to uh Sue Snapchat cuz all the kids are buying drugs yeah wow cuz every story we talk about Snapchat they're always the kids are buying drugs from drug yeah but not only are they buying drugs but the kids these are the parents of kids who have died don't yell at me dude I didn't know I didn't know dude I thought they were buying peret I didn't know they were buying no they're buying they're buying all kinds of different narcotics but then these are the ones that like are fit in lace of course and then you know their tolerance is nowhere yeah they're not ready for that handle the the Big Daddy stuff I thought they were sending underage dick piics n they don't care about that just Li bro but um yeah so they're they're suing now and uh

1:42 because Snapchat I guess there's an algorithm that's in play for everything so even if it's something illegal it'll the algo will still treat it like it's just a thing so if you're a person who's buying drugs on Snapchat from different dealers you have a higher rate of finding other dealers that's cool oh convenient drug Al that is a good algorithm it works that's good Tech at least it's a fair one so that's why now there's an actual ability to to sue them because they're like you you can't just sue them for using the platform for you know bad things but now they're like well now we can prove that your app has made it easier to buy that's kind of s█████ because they didn't mean for that to happen they're just trying to serve you things that you like but then it happened to be drugs and illegal drugs right is it really their fault there's that what's his name that Bo Burnham he had this like whole

2:33 speech about like why do you think that there's an app that exists where me that's targeted for 13-year-olds where messages disappear after you send them and it was like I forget what he went on to say but that just sparked a thought in my mind where it was like the app is marketed towards children damn that is pretty rough sus like it's like oh we don't want your messages to be seen by anyone afterwards like that is really sus yeah you're right right it's a sus app overall you do that on Instagram on vanish mode that is true but then does the other person know they do right yeah when you do vanish mode does it actually vanish or is it still yeah vanishes it's yeah it's basically you're turning on Snapchat for your Instagram chat what about Google because yeah but isn't it still being saved in a database for a certain period of time accessible to certain people I think certain people can access or whatever you know such a

3:23 like a high level of like you got to investigate into like yeah you know what about the pictures like Snapchat where you can do it but it doesn't you can't keep it be real are you talking about be no like on Instagram you send a photo like if you send a dickpic or whatever but then it's not it's it it does only 20 like what after you open it it's done can't they just save it or screen cat they'll know it'll tell you it'll show you it'll be like they screenshotted you oh you know back back when Snapchat had like you can screenshot it but it wouldn't tell you that you screenshotted it no way in the beginning like a little bit yeah yeah the good old days I remember the ████ Snapchat when it would snitch on you about who you were snapping the best friends bro that ████ ruined my life true cuz you would if you don't use Snapchat and then you snap someone like twice in a row then they're your best friend they're your best friend and then all of a sudden you're get a phone call why is this person why are you snapping this person that's like Myspace days man that's scary top best

4:14 friends but Myspace you got to pick who is your best friend Snapchat would tell everyone like look look who who they're snapping who's talking Look So speaking to the anyone in the room who's a former narcotics pedler it's not just you it's um I I saw what do you think about selling drugs on Snapchat is that like it's the best place to do it pretty if you want new customers cuz if you have your or like already base then like why are you using SnapChat maybe to meet up or like arrange it so you don't have a phone but you have a burner phone so why I don't I don't understand maybe if you're like retail meaning like you're selling the new or or you're just every day like having people pick up but once you go to wholesale you already have your people that you sell to would you consider it a dis honorable act that it was like no I think it's genius dude when I was in

5:04 Vietnam um one of the most genius sales I saw was uh on Tinder so I matched up with this girl and we were chatting and then they're like oh you like smoking and and drinking and whatever do you like smoke weed and I'm like yeah he's like oh do you want to buy some or whatever I'm like oh interesting and then after uh there was like actually bro I'm a guy sorry if I wasted your time but they're like if you want like I'm out here in Vietnam you you know and then I was like oh he's like you're from LA right he goes can you can you get me a connect and I'm all like oh that's interesting and I'm like I'm out of the game completely but that that that's a nice way for you to you know find an introduction yeah sweet plug entrepreneurship hey I seen I've seen a Tinder he got banned from Tinder but I seen this guy that made candles he had a candle business and he went on

5:55 Tinder and it was just pictures of his candles and it was like SWAT like so if you would SWAT it was he was literally using Tinder to Market his candles that's ████ and then he got banned but he made hella sales off of Tinder that's ████ so smart that's so they like your candle damn that's so funny that's so wholesome to do that I thought I was talking to a ABG that lives in Vietnam and I'm all like wow you know English being some Eastern European guy that overstate his ████ and he's trying to find a way to get connects for herb he goes I need wholesale you know I not good ████ here but you're from California so you dropped them after that you never like helped them out with none of that you didn't link with him to you you guys a link up no damn the idea of like it sucks because I I feel like if you're selling through snapchat you're mainly going after kids right

6:47 yeah or no cuz like AR most who's 20 who's older than 21 no but you know what Snapchat is an old thing like I feel like people these days don't like kids don't be using like people like like they do cuz if you go on Snapchat SP if you go on their version of Tik Tok the content is so childish true and then you read the comments on there and it's like yeah these are kids that are on this ████ I just think that it's for like like kids use it yeah there's a whole thing there now where like the cpms are super high if you post content dude I was posting for hella long trying to get that ████ to crack but my ████ is alcohol so like they would just take my ████ down all the time too bad it's not drugs man yeah too bad it wasn't Molly and fentol sorry sorry Snapchat damn yeah a lot of people started moving their content to Snapchat for that reason that is a weird way to connect though cuz back I mean the first way was Silk Road remember that yeah and then

7:39 people would get it in the mail that way oh Black Market ████ yeah I still do that on the dark web yeah have you ever been on the dark web I don't even know what it looks like dark dark mode dark mode it's like a browser but it's like dark mode like you know Spider-Man just imagine Venom you had to you had to down I forgot what the ████ tour you had to get tour yeah yeah you have to get a whole other like Standalone did you peek around right I we used to um we used to in high school we used to buy whole sheets of acid and then we were just off tour oh my God that's crazy you know what's funny is um back in the day so I I don't know if it was legal in Canada but you know they have a whole growing culture that was Superior to California at the time and um I was on a straight up just website and they would show you all these different kinds of weed seeds that you can buy MH right I

8:31 ████ basically they the way that they did it is you don't put your own credit card you like buy like money order and then you send the money order in I put this dude's address on there for Mr Arthur Baker Arthur Baker yeah I just said I just put the name Mr Arthur Baker and I bought all these seeds and I had it sent to his house and he goes Joe your package is here and I ████ got it and then we were like all scared cuz like at the time the cops would just if there's like a delivery or whatever they would just stake out the house but then but when it arrived we just left it there with a different name we just left it in the mailbox for a couple of days to see if like there was anybody watching and then bar was like all right I think you could take it now so I grabbed it went home and ████ started growing weed oh my God yeah but now it's like not even

9:22 illegal right this is where we was like Co having cocaine yeah like 2008 7 I think it was way even before JK might have been 2004 something did he tell you he was going to use your address yeah did he tell you that's funny if he didn't but it was crazy though cuz that was like the beginning of all that ████ like it was like wow I actually got weed seeds from Canada I still feel like why don't I just buy actual weed back then I mean I wanted to grow my own strain and all nerdy about it you were a con ofur yeah wait did you actually grow some good weed I got lazy halfway through just hard it no it's very hard you need like a whole greenhouse and ████ it I don't think it ever flowered you had like a whole like hydronic system frame expensive too especially back then bro we grew one plant at our house in monter park and then when we had dry it that

10:13 allegedly that ████ stank a whole ████ house allegedly had a whole framing system we did we did and it didn't flow allegedly allegedly it never I'm talking about irrigation and everything that was like irrigation was allegedly like this big and allegedly the whole thing was like was like like was allegedly this thing now he sound suspicious imagine there's a detective watching this from your case back then going got him they said allegedly move in move in move in I was he I mean that's tough growing plants is tough I kill weed so like like actual just like weed you know allegedly my boy was growing an entire weed plant while he lived with his parents in his closet we had like um like one of those like hydroponic like it's almost like a zipper closet now it's all like you could buy the whole set we had to go to Home Depot and build that ████ probably

11:04 on Amazon now I still think buying that type of thing on dark web was that was like the peanuts like the crazy stuff people were buying were like Assassin card blanks or the machines that can copy that's cool yeah that can read like like account info or they'll just buy stolen credit cards and that s███'s way crazier to me you buy human organs you can't smoke that stuff you know if I could redo my my criminal years again I would definitely do scamming into Financial crime yeah Financial crime much more money yeah you'll just get a stop it that's true man charge it especially back then and like with the credit card scamming it's like the the credit card company is paying for that right not not the person you're stealing from if they notice yeah yeah so it's like ████ the system it's not like yeah get them like if you don't notice that someone's scamming you then you're rich enough that's true and that happens all

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