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Ep. 246: Kids and Phones

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Importance of Unrestricted Access to Social Media

The 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act or COPA implicitly encodes 13 as the minimum age that you can sign up for a social media service. The original version of this act had 16 in there, like lobbyists in DC got that pushed down to 13. There's calls now to amend it back to 16.

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