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The Plot to Poison Children's Minds


Social media should be treated like alcohol. But money got in the way.

I respect friends who’ve sworn off the stuff, but I would miss the occasional beer with my burger, the glass of red with my Bolognese, the shared bottle of Prosecco on social occasions. Although Americans in effect decided that mature adults should be free to drink, even given the risks, we also as a nation realized that young people shouldn’t be trusted to make that decision. As far as I can tell, Meta and NetChoice, which effectively acted as its front organization, barely even tried to make a serious argument against KOSA; they just repeated boilerplate about free speech and parental choice that Senate Republicans had already dismissed in that 91-3 vote.

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