Don't We Have More Important Things Going On? Stop The Nanny State Bullsh*t!

I like Youngkin. I think he is a good governor, and he certainly would make an interesting candidate for national office.

But this sort of arrant nonsense makes me think he is far less serious than I had assumed and hoped.

GOP Gov Signs Law That Would Set Daily Time Limit For Kids On Social Media

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed a bill into law on Friday to limit the social media use of minors under the age of 16 to one hour per day.

The Consumer Data Protection Act, supported by both Republican and Democrat state lawmakers, will require social media platforms, like Facebook and Instagram, to limit minors’ time on such platforms.

Platforms will use “neutral age screen mechanisms” to determine the age of users and then limit their screen-time accordingly, Wavy.com reported. Parents, per the law, will be required to give “verifiable” consent if they want their child’s time on such apps increased or decreased.

Second, making social media platforms do the work that parents seem unwilling to do is allowing them to avoid responsibility for their own children. The nanny-statism of this bill is deeply troubling.

Third, anything that receives bipartisan support should be immediately suspect. The Democrat party has an unblemished record of destruction, and anything they want is probably a bad thing. Undermining the family by ceding control to the social media companies is another step in the destruction of the traditional family structure, even if on the face of this is parental control. But it is a step away from allowing families to decide what is best for their children, and a step toward government deciding that!

Do I think that children should have access to social media? Absolutely not. I think it has a corrosive and destructive influence on our culture, and all thinking people should fight against its influence on our children.

Do I think that government should restrict access to social media? No.

Maybe three generations of the destruction of the family by both the Democrat party and its enablers in the Republican party has done the lion's share of the damage. It is incumbent upon us to recover the concept that parents know best, that the family unit is the core of our culture, that government (and its corporate surrogates) should simply stay out of it and let us raise our children as we see fit.

posted by CBD at 12:00 PM

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