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		happyopossum on July 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New bill would ban autoplay videos and endless scr... This bill would only apply to social media sites, so unless your 'quit smoking' app was such, it woulnd't have affected it at all.

geddy on July 30, 2019 | [–]

Until a 74 year old politician expands "social media site". Come on, you know how this always goes. Slippery slopes and what-not.

esoterica on July 30, 2019 | [–]

I hope you enjoy paying your lawyers tens of millions to litigate the definition of a “social media site”.

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