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According to the reading, interactive television can negatively affect children’s intelligence and allow companies to target children.

The professor expands on this first point by saying that television has been shown to be harmful for children under the age of two to watch.

Tests have shown that it can lower intelligence levels. Yet there are many interactive television programs out that made especially for children under two.

He also says that interactive television allows advertisers to target young children.

They can sell specific products to children based on what they learn about them through the Internet.

Children are easily persuaded by these advertisements and accept what they see or hear has been true.