The other half of the problem is that the direction of these moral panics tends to embrace and expand the existing fundamental problem. Here, the tech industry desperately needs some competition in client software, which is currently being prevented by the anticompetitive bundling of client access software together with communication/hosting services. If there were competition, a parent could let their kid communicate on facebook/tiktok/etc with a client that worked in the interest of the kid themselves rather than being forced to take-or-leave the deliberately-designed-as-dopamine-traps singleton proprietary apps/webapps. But trying to fix that fundamental problem would likely step on too many moneyed toes and thus end up dead in the water. So instead this bill was aimed at creating even more of an anti-competitive moat in the hopes the tech giants would get on board.