Has Congress traded our kids for Big Tech?
Read the phrase "traded our kids for Big Tech" and you already know where this is pointing. It's a heavy accusation, that the people who write our laws have priced child safety below the comfort of Silicon Valley. I'd want to see the evidence laid out plainly before I signed on to that, but there's enough smoke here to take seriously.
For years the gap between what tech companies say about protecting minors and what their platforms actually do has been embarrassing. Hearings fill rooms, executives promise reforms, and then the next scandal lands. If Congress genuinely keeps cozying up to the same companies it's supposed to regulate, kids end up as the incentive to look the other way.
At the same time, regulation is never simple. Laws aimed at protecting children can collide with free expression, and companies can pull back features that families actually rely on. So the real question, for me, is whether we're seeing genuine deadlock or a deliberate failure to act. I'd want to know what specific bills are stalled, and who is blocking them. Without that detail, "cozying up" stays an accusation, even if it's one worth probing.