James Talarico

I don't think that's what any father teaches his son.

No father teaches their son to find the weakest person in the room and bully them.

And so if any young men are listening to this podcast, I would say that we have a choice every Saturday morning.

We can either troll people on the internet or we can go mow our neighbor's lawn.

And I think that's the kind of...

I just think that's the model of what a man was in my life.

That's the model I got from my dad.

And I think we all need to remember the example of our fathers in this current environment, in this current discussion.

And again, this is the work I did at the state level that I think we can build on at the federal level.

I was the co-author of the bill that banned smartphones in our public schools here in Texas.

I was the co-author of a bill that didn't end up passing, but it would have adopted Australia's policy banning algorithmic social media for people under 18.

And I would be very interested in fighting for those kind of policies at the federal level.

I'd also be really interested in how we go after big tech.

And you mentioned liability.

These tech companies were always able to hide behind the First Amendment.

They were always able to say, well, we're just the town square.

We're not promoting any speech.

That is not true in a world of algorithmic social media.

These algorithms absolutely promote and elevate certain kinds of speech over others.

And it's usually the most radicalizing content.