Thread by @MattLaslo

NEW: The Political Theater Behind the Bipartisan Data Privacy Push

Biden’s #sotu2023 call for better data protections got a bipartisan standing ovation. So, where’s a federal privacy law?

My latest is live
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*this piece is also the reason I’m on 2 hours of post-#sotu2023 sleep 😴 today bit.ly/40FjLQS

“A lot of the data we’re seeing already, teenagers, preteens—it has a very, very negative impact on their self-esteem, their self-concept, and their well-being,” @CoryBooker says, as the push for children’s online privacy protections ramps up in Washington bit.ly/40FjLQS

“It’s a big deal,” @SenTinaSmith says of Biden’s new tech push. “We don’t really fully know, or understand, the impact of social media on kids. The child psychologists and the experts that I talk to say there’s a lot of evidence that it’s so dangerous.” bit.ly/40FjLQS

“That’s one of the few good things he said,” @HawleyMO tells me of Biden’s data privacy push in #sotu2023.

“I hope that we can find some bipartisanship,” Hawley continued.

Washington’s light on hope these days… bit.ly/40FjLQS

“@JoeBiden is concerned, as all of us are, about powerful monopolies that are doing an enormous amount of black box work. No one can see the internal workings—all we know is that the dangers to our children are growing daily,” @ewarren tells me in @WIRED bit.ly/40FjLQS