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It's Rico Daley. I'm Adam Clark Estes.

Earlier this month, President Biden laid out a vision for making the Internet a less terrible place.

But the approach might mean that lawmakers end up repeating certain mistakes they've been making for decades.

Rico Tsera Morrison is here to explain.

So at the State of the Union address, he mentioned, I think, maybe for the first time.

It's time to strengthen privacy protections.

So like a ban on target ads, a ban on collecting the personal data that feeds those target ads.

He sort of called out social media platforms for running a national experiment on their users.

And we must hold social media platforms accountable.

Okay, so far so good. Though I'm sensing a butt is coming.

Yeah, he demanded all of these things, but only as they apply to children.

So adults, apparently, no privacy protections.

Well, it's hard to argue against protecting kids, I guess. Can you explain why that's a problem?

I mean, we know social media can be bad for kids. Why wouldn't we want to focus on protecting them first?

So, I mean, you can see why children are particularly vulnerable to some of the worst parts of social media

and might need some additional protections from it.

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