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Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

And this gist of the article is that a lot of that would violate the First Amendment if the government forced Meta to do it, and putting it in a settlement instead of a law and making it an "industry standard" is just a way for the government to get around that.