Recently, however, the conversation has shifted away from how these technologies affect our politics to, more importantly, our children.
Recently, however, the conversation has shifted away from how these technologies affect our politics to, more importantly, our children. “What data do they collect on these kids? What do they know? How much money are they making off of them?” I heard Sen. Amy Klobuchar ask in an interview. She then shared an anecdote about a teenage boy who fell and broke his tooth. He used Snapchat to get painkillers, took one pill, and died. He thought he had bought prescription Percocet, but the pills were laced with fentanyl. “No parent should have to bury their kid,” Klobuchar said in her concluding remarks calling for Snapchat to be regulated.