There’s nothing smart about the SMART Act

It’s not clear that the latest anti-tech bill in Washington was ever written to pass. But the new legislation, put forward by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, is an alarming marker of a dangerous and shortsighted trend in policy. It should be opposed.
The Social Media Addiction Reduction Technology Act, as it is called, conveniently abbreviated as the SMART Act, would insert what is in effect one man’s amateur definition of “addiction” into both federal law and virtually all