A couple of days ago, a court in Los Angeles, California, condemned Meta and Mark Zuckerberg's YouTube to pay 3 million dollars to a 20-year-old young woman who argued that in her childhood she suffered from addictions to social networks. On the other hand, a young Spanish woman, Noelia Castillo, who had suffered sexual abuse in her childhood, had been fighting depression and anxiety for some years. As a result of a suicide attempt in 2022, she became paraplegic. Finally, after a legal dispute of more than a year, she obtained legal permission to receive euthanasia on March 26 of this year. In both situations, we witness two ways of thinking and positioning ourselves regarding responsibility: in the first, it is evident that both children and adults delegate the responsibility for controlling and managing a small child who is exposed to cell phones and social media to someone else. The second case concerns the radical exercise of the singularity of a young woman who requests the judicial power to authorize her euthanasia: she determined that her life was no longer worth living and that she did not wish to continue. And her family? Something curious is to hold the platform responsible for the childhood addiction a person experienced. As Jacques Lacan said, 'From our position as subjects, we are always responsible.' This condemnation is added to another one in which it was ruled that the same company had to pay more than 300 million dollars for having engaged in practices that could have compromised the security of its users, favoring criminal practices by third parties.
