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Speaker criticizes social media firms for harming youth and urges state action on data ownership and child protections
Summary
An unidentified presenter blamed large technology companies for harms to children and society, said lawsuits show companies knew of the harms, and urged state-level guardrails, including limits on sexualized AI companions and protections for minors; the remarks cited Utah's data-ownership law and called for legislative follow-up.
Unidentified Speaker, identified only as the event presenter in the transcript, used the address to criticize dominant social media and technology companies and to link those criticisms to proposed state policy responses.
The presenter said he once was a "true tech optimist" but has become a tech pessimist because social platforms have been used to "manipulate us, to divide us, and to do significant harm." He asserted that a small number of large, wealthy companies have "strip mined our souls" and…
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