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> The bill would limit social-media usage to half an hour a day (users would be able to bypass the limit by adjusting their app settings).

The Economist is putting it mildly. The Act is quite short and accessible, so well worth reading directly: https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2019-07/So.... More on that half an hour limit, from Section 4 (paraphrased):

- Opt-out 30 minutes a day time limit

- The time limit gets reset every month, so you have to keep opting out

- A nag pop-up at least once every 30 minutes showing how much time you've spent there that day

If this passes, using the (US) internet will become much more annoying.

(Section 7, which says the FTC gets to make up new rules later, looks a bit suspicious to me too, but I'm not clear on the degree to which that's just standard operating procedure for American politics.)



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