Critics have said the bills are unconstitutional and violate First Amendment protections.

Florida Senate takes up bill banning kids from having social media accounts::Critics have said the bills are unconstitutional and violate First Amendment protections.

  • theluddite@lemmy.mlEnglish
    196·
    10 months ago

    Maybe this is a hot take, but it’s really unfortunate that only the unhinged conservative lunatics are willing to have this discussion. I actually think that it’d be really healthy in a democracy to come together and exercise some agency in how we allow tech companies to access our children, if at all, but American liberals seem committed to some very broken notions of technocratic progress paired with free speech, while American conservatives are happy to throw all that away in order to have total control over their children, arriving closer to the right place for very dangerous reasons.

    • bionicjoeyEnglish
      17·
      10 months ago

      Maybe this is a hot take, but it’s really unfortunate that only the unhinged conservative lunatics are willing to have this discussion.

      It’s because the US has no left wing. There are the Democrats, who are more than happy to see big corpos getting rich by exploiting people. And there are the Republicans, who basically believe the same thing, but with an extra helping of being super reactionary to any kind of societal change. Neither party would approach this question from the perspective of “what does the science say about this topic?”