If you’re in charge of a social media platform like Instagram, what would it mean to “stall” the rollout of a safety feature aimed at getting users to pause their use of your product? After all, reduced to the bluntest possible terms, telling users to look away from the ads that drive your revenue is, in theory, the opposite of good business, and that’s what Instagram’s Take a Break feature essentially does. The safety-minded may build and even implement a feature, but the bottom-line minded might hesitate to foist such a feature on users who don’t actively ask for it.
But life doesn’t reduce things to the bluntest terms, and at trial on…
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