I was a little confused on initial read, but I missed that it was a counting machine, not a voting machine.

Agreed. But you can do both. No amount of regulation of algorithms is going to prevent the developmental harm that does to developing minds (not that I have any evidence for that).

I’m surprised that there was any evidence of the fraud left to find!

Jesus, this idea that ‘parents need to take responsibility’. Social Media companies spend billions to tune their products to be as addictive and consuming as it is possible to be. Children have undeveloped brains which are particularly susceptible to social media influences. It’s like saying we should have heroine and cocain freely available to all and ‘parents need to take responsibility’ if they don’t want their kids to be addicts!

No, here is usually some redundancy designed in - by having 3 or 4 units, so if one fails there is a backup. But only the OEM is allowed to maintain the kit under contract. And surprise surprise, the terms of the repair contract usually involve insane rates for contractors and spare parts. Which the OEM withholds to extort even more.