I think they make a reference to the sexualisation of children through the agressive marketing they refer to. It is because we allow children to act as a herd,

I think they make a reference to the sexualisation of children through the agressive marketing they refer to. It is because we allow children to act as a herd, directionless and meaningless that they are vulnerable to these powerful marketing techniques. Adults to not allow children to operate in the adult world in any meaningful way so marketing people have filled the vacuum with, well, a vacuum, but a vacuum that they can make money from.