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Interesting Global [email protected]English • 11 months ago

Wisconsin Pushing Bill That Requires Websites To Treat All Users As If They’re Children

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Wisconsin Pushing Bill That Requires Websites To Treat All Users As If They’re Children

www.techdirt.com

BrikoXM to

Interesting Global [email protected]English • 11 months ago

cross-posted to:
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I’ve talked before about the utter stupidity (and danger) of trying to turn the internet into Disneyland: a safe space for little kids, where they’ll never encounter any content that makes them ups…

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So all websites will be the tiktok app now?

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