Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid (opens in new tab)

First they came for the VPNs\. I’m on tour with my new book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI \. Catch me TONIGHT \(Jun 23\) at Osler Records in Toronto and on TOMORROW \(Jun 24\) in NYC at The Strand \. After that, it’s Philly and Chicago \. The literature on harms to kids from online platforms is complex and nuanced, rife with people citing small, ambiguous studies as iron-clad evidence that kids are being destroyed by the internet: It’s a weird coalition of anti-Big Tech campa...