
"Auchincloss emphasized regulating social media platforms as an area for new legislation. He proposed raising the minimum age on such platforms to 16 and taxing large tech companies’ digital advertising revenue to fund trade schools.
'I think social media regulations are the 21st-century equivalent of the child labor laws of 19th-century America, where we have to ask ourselves as a society to what degree and with what amount of accountability are we willing to allow market forces to act directly upon childhood,' Auchincloss said.
He then turned to advancements in artificial intelligence, expressing concern with the growing prevalence of AI companions marketed toward children.
'I don’t want my kids to have AI friends. I want my kids to have real friends,' Auchincloss said."
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Rep. Jake Auchincloss, D-Mass., called for the Democratic Party to chart a new path entering the 2028 presidential primary, rather than adopting a more moderate version of MAGA. He detailed his “new American dream” in an Independent Thinkers event Monday: