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throw12347825on Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers

... And by "age of consent" I meant "minimum legal age recognized to make decisions pertaining to topic X". Is there a proper term for that, so I don't sound so stupid in future?

throw12347825on Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers

Yep, drawing red lines around age of consent has worked so well in the past, I think this is the way.

I'm so glad we have simple and effective solutions like this. Otherwise can you imagine the kinds of problems we'd have with kids vaping, buying lootboxes and scrolling social media designed to hijack their not-yet-fully-developed-brains?

throw12347825on Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers

A tragic story would be one where folks in positions of power in these organizations saw these crises coming from a million miles away, tried to avoid disaster, and failed.

I don't think this is a tragic story.

I think this is a rather boring and formulaic plot we're seeing over and over: the story of late-stage capitalism and the application of value-extraction to human social structures resulting in comically terrible outcomes.