Oh jeez, I wonder who on Earth could be behind this mass push for surveillance?

Facebook has been documented for sponsoring these bills in the USA.

But we also have years of research about how social media and other internet phenomena are ruining kids' lives.

I don't disagree with the principle of a lot of these laws, but many implementations are too flawed to be a mistake.

I think it's because they're afraid of what we might ask AI to help us build.

I would have used the word "suspicious", but yeah.

Why is it weird? Social media has existed for around the same amount of time for all western countries, and people have noticed the harm at around the same time everywhere.

Why do you require some special interest? Ordinary people are seeing the harm and demanding help. Tech companies did themselves no favors by locking down phones and accounts to the point that it's impossible for parents to police and/or check their kids phones.

So now that parents have been blocked from parenting, who else is going to do it?

Of course. They meet in Davos every year.