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This article is pro KOSA Act. A tainted report

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/kids-online-safety-act-will-make-internet-worse-everyone

It’s the same model as religion and cigarettes: Get ‘em hooked young and you have a customer for as long as they live.

Its was also Epsteins priority for his clients.

Litterally just reading about the reading crisis and how we don't know why it is so bad...

Maybe there's a link between the two.

In other news: water is wet.

This is not a reason to pass Kosa, KOSA does not address these problems. These companies need dismantled.

No shit, Sherlock.

This is why I am glad that social media is slowly becoming age gated in other countries.

And people will still say.. "oh just parent your kids"... In the face of this and all the other pulls on time and energy in the real world as well as how fast it all changes, it's so hard to just parent your kids. We can't rely on every individual parent staying up to date on and understanding how to get around all of this.

To be clear, I'm not in favour of stupid shit like age verification.

Unfortunately, they've been so successful, we won't be able to get our kids to read this report.

See also: LLMs

I misread this as “teen pregnancy” at first and with everything going on, i believed it.

I called this years ago. I could see the Dopamine addiction happening, and knew these psychopaths would lean into it and try to weaponize it, and they have. Of course, they have.

It's not the first time. Tobacco companies were found to manipulate their formulations to make theor products addict users quicker, addict them stronger, and make it harder to quit, all while denying the addictive properties, and even the obvious health issues.

Oil companies had their own studies back in the 80s, that clearly predicted Climate Change from fossil fuels, and yet they continue to deny it to this day.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that the think tanks that fund and support the Conservative Propaganda Machine have also done studies to identify the addictive properties and triggers in their propaganda, and manipulate it for maximum effect.

WHEN we take back our country, and make major changes to get away from the ugly conservative society that they've tried to force upon us for decades, the addictive properties of "products" need to be identified and strongly regulated, to avoid exploiting unsuspecting citizens.