Jonathan Haidt
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jun
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Whereas we also live in a world in which lots of people are out to get children, you know, predators, companies, people make addictive products.
They're all out to get children as customers or victims.
And so we have a much more protective attitude towards children.
And we know, and this was one of the amazing things that came out in the social media trials in Los Angeles, is that these companies, and here we mean Meta, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube.
Those are the four companies that thousands of parents are suing because they damaged their kids.
We have internal documents from all of them about how they were trying to hook kids.
They used the word addiction until I think in 2019, Metis sent out a memo saying, do not use the word addiction anymore because it could show up in documents.
Call it problematic use, which sure, that is actually perhaps a better term, but it still means compulsive use that you can't control and that leads you to live in ways that you don't want and that cause harm to you.
So we know that they're all competing to hook kids.
So that's the second reason is that we all agree we can protect kids.
And then a third related reason is this is totally bipartisan.
That's one of the exciting things about this.
This is one of the few topics in American life
where Republicans and Democrats agree, this is terrible what's happening.
We need to stop it.
We need phone-free schools.
We need to raise the age to 16.
We need to protect our kids from these predatory companies.
The TikTok CEO.
Oh, good luck.
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