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Privacy laws don't prevent foreign entities from influencing elections and making children addicted.


And age verification prevents influencing elections, how?

This is a reach. Children can't vote. If that was a real concern you would be banning adults from social media.

We should do that. Unfortunately adults have these pesky things called freedom, and rights. We should also ban them from smoking cigarettes.

Cambridge Analytica? The addictions are from these free platforms which do so to harvest your data



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