Josh Hawley, R-Mo. Hawley surmised that over the last decade, tech companies have conducted "a giant social experiment involving our kids, where big tech makes gobs of money, collects gobs of data, which they then sell and make even more money on. As for his upcoming legislative effort aimed at safeguarding kids online, Hawley, the parent of three young children, said, "I don’t want to do stuff that is that is just sort of symbolic