
Mr. Harris Goes to Washington
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What Are the Legislative Proposals to Deal With Addiction?
Senator Markey has something called the Kids Act, which is the Kids Internet Design Safety Act. They tackle some of the design features that are out of bounds on social media sites such as autoplay and come back emails. The easiest thing they could do to prove that they're not addictive designed companies would be to stop user resurrection or what it's called come back emails for those who don't know. There's also rules around commercialization and marketing and the amplification of harmful content because YouTube for kids has been real cesspool of this kind of really dangerous stuff.
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