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For the same reason it's illegal to sell tobacco to minors. Your kids have a right to exist in society without a constant chaperone, and other adults don't have a right to interact with your kids as if they're adults.

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Absolutely anything to coddle the mind. Without the exposure, children will never be able to build resilience to these ideas. You can see the effects of this type of parenting today in the students who can't handle ideas they don't like. I can't seriously believe that folks want to make it illegal for parents to parent any other way.

I guess you didn't read my other reply. You can balance the rights and interests of both parents and kids by narrowing the proposal.

There's plenty of precedent. I'm allowed to give my kids alcohol, but you're not. Something similar could make sense for social media below a certain age.

Social media is good for kids. Here they can't just be dismissed because they're kids but will be judged fairly on the basis of their merit. Freedom of speech only exists online for them.

They can design the law to ban companies from giving an account directly to a kid, but allow parents to give their kids an account. There's room to negotiate down from this proposal.

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