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Texas bans kids from social media without parental consent (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by withersailor@aussie.zone to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

While I know why the Texas government would want to make sure children are exposed to nothing but official state propaganda, hopefully an unintended consequence of this is to put a massive hole in the monopolistic mainstream social media userbase since the uncontrollable web including the fediverse would be the only alternative in these states.