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Ep.122 - Big Techs Made Your Smartphone Mandatory: Brad Littlejohn on Smartphones, Porn, and Protecting Kids Online
Ask most people about the smartphone and you get a familiar shrug. It is a free choice. Buy one or don’t, nobody is forcing you. My guest spent years in tech policy proving that is a myth, and he can tell you the exact moment the choice disappeared.
I treat the fallout of the digital world for a living, so I came in with my own hard line on screens.
What I did not expect was to hear a seasoned policy leader admit, plainly, that for years he stayed quiet on the issue he now fights hardest for, because the stigma made it feel too risky to speak up.
That is where this conversation starts, and it…
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