Who should pay for the harm caused by children’s social media use?

Yanis Varoufakis’s idea of “technofeudalism” offers a complementary perspective for understanding this power asymmetry. Digital platforms are increasingly resembling feudal estates rather than traditional capitalist firms…. Children grow up within these privately governed ecosystems. Their socialisation, leisure time, and increasingly their educational experiences are shaped within largely opaque systems governed by algorithms rather than democratic oversight. In this context, parental authority is structurally disadvantaged in competing with continuous, invisible, and scalable algorithmic authority.