[roryirvine]

Exactly. People are genuinely angry that the social media giants seem to have known for years that their products are harmful.

And, more so, that they've had a decade to reduce or mitigate the harms but have consistently (some might think deliberately) failed to do so.

So now we have the sledgehammer of legislation being wielded to do the job instead.

It's not an ideal outcome by any means, but what did people think was going to happen?

[microgpt]

We could have thoughtfully considered legislation, like the California age act