Senator Hawley Introducing a Bill to ban social media for children under 16
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The parents should decide, not the state.
It depends on who are your parents. In my case I could stay out as much as I wanted with 14. My father let me. Now I am 62, getting my pension. To much freedom has not harmed me. What harms is ignorance!
Just what our society really needs, more "baby-fication" of young citizens by Big Brother. These are the kinds of social engineering laws that are responsible for creating a society filled with irresponsible, subservient, pussies.
If you can't teach your teenager to use social media responsibly, and you don't want your teenager to use a social media platform, then tell them not to do it, and if they don't listen, then beat their asses with a belt until they do. Or use some other parenting technique to, ya know, take responsibility to be a parent.
Oh, but wait, we have another social engineering baby-fication law stopping parents from dealing with their teen offspring with time proven technique's too- can't use a belt. This dumbshit of the govt. trying to parent every household has gone way too far already, and it needs to end. 15 year olds using social media is not a crime, and it never should be. Josh needs to focus on one of the 100,000+ other problems in this nation, instead of wasting time with authoritarian Big Brother legislation like this. This is clown-world level legislation.
State over reach, parents can control or advise, not the State.
They should ban it to age 18 when they become legal adults. You know how much trouble a 16 year old can get into?
I thought 16 was too young also.
It is. I know 2 girls that age that were posting 'explicit' photos of themselves on there. Not good.
Parents should monitor also but I like this bill.
I do too. It might save some innocent kids lives.