[Barraketh]

Incidentally, similar arguments are going to play out around trying to sue oil & gas companies for climate change (and will probably use the same public nuisance statutes). The o&g companies lobby against emissions standards / carbon regulations, but ultimately selling oil and gas is legal, and it's the job of the government to regulate, so there isn't a simple legal doctrine to say "hey, you guys bought off a bunch of politicians and thus are still liable for damages".

[akerl_]

Hopefully nobody decides in a decade that cryptocurrency or social media damaged society, I guess?

The reason it’s hard to prosecute somebody for something that was legal at the time is because that’s a giant can of worms to open.