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Come. Support for this podcast comes from Math Works, a company accelerating the pace of

engineering and science. Stick around until the end of this episode for a special

segment about how one company is using Mathworks software to

revolutionize outer space navigation. Members of Congress don't agree on much these

days, even on basic facts. But if there's one thing they dislike more

than each other, it's the power of big tech. And that mutual distrust brought about a recent, rare, overwhelming bipartisan consensus.

The ayes are 91, the nays are 3, and the motion is agreed to.

On July 30th, the Senate overwhelmingly passed a couple of

bills to protect kids online. The bills call for tech companies to take quote

reasonable steps to mitigate harm to children on their platforms and to

prevent some kinds of data collection on minors. Republican Senator Marsha

Blackburn of Tennessee right after the vote. A message that we're sending to Big Tech.

Kids are not your product.

Kids are not your profit source,

and we are going to protect them in the virtual space.

It's been two years since Blackburn and Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut

first introduced the legislation and since then

bipartisan support has grown dramatically. By the time the bill made it to the

Senate floor for a vote it had 62 co-sponsors making for all manner of strange bedfellows such as Massachusetts

Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South

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