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Podcast: This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro
Episode: Why Laws Aren't Enough: Stepping Up To Keep Kids Safe Online
Description: Despite the US Surgeon General's call earlier this year for Congress to approve a law that would require mental health warnings on social media for younger users, and heart-breaking stories about children suffering terrible trauma, up to and including death, as a result of negative online interactions; we are living in a world where children are just not safe online.
They're not safe either from the peer pressure of people they know, or the sick manipulations of strangers–and even AI chatbots– they meet online, and so far; there hasn't been any effective legal blockade put up to protect them from...