Society restricts kids' access to cars and cigarettes. The same logic should apply to social media, which disrupts development through addictive design and algorithmic feeds. Puberty happens once, and the damage may be worse than regulated substances.
We put safeguards in place for our children in the physical world. So whether that's having a driving age or an aged by tobacco and alcohol and the harms from those things are actually proven to be probably not as bad as social media in some instances, right? 100%. And so we really need to apply that same role to the online world because while education is great and parents play a big part of it, the problem is that children having unlimited access to social media is damaging them long term. Right. And so you know, when you look at our young people you only go through puberty once. This is what Jonathan Haidt says and you know, we need to actually give them a better starting point than what we're currently doing. And you know what we're seeing with addictive design with the algorithms, with the type of content that children are being displayed with, it's not giving them the chance to develop in a way that's normal. Right.
