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Re:FTC issues orders to nine social media and video streamin... by HexagonalKitten on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @12:35AM (#25427368)
That sounds wrong. Many of my best friends live every day thinking of their children and their future. I welcome congress acting like this.

I don't trust laws justified with only a soundbite though, whatever the soundbite is.

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Re:FTC issues orders to nine social media and video streamin... by bilbo0s on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @01:33PM (#25433326)
And if your friends are the politicians in charge, then maybe that would be a good argument that I should be less skeptical about the "think of the children" claim.

But your friends are likely not the politicians in charge, and even if they were, I wouldn't take the word of an anonymous internet poster that said friends were wholly honest and forthright in this regard. I would remain skeptical of their intentions. The recipe for good democracy includes a healthy amount of skepticism. Skepticism is what motivates investigations and inquiries. Inquiries of the type the FTC studiously avoided by not triggering the 10 entity flag.

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