Jay Caspian Kang on Australia’s social-media ban for young people under sixteen, on free speech, and on the U.S. movement to restrict kids’ access to technology.
Free-speech norms and powerful tech companies make legal restrictions unlikely—but social changes are already taking place.
et’s say, for the sake of the following discussion, that we agree on the following:
- Teen-agers have First Amendment rights.
- Social media has become the place where people, especially young people, express their views.
- Social media is very bad for kids.
The question, given these facts, is: How much are we willing to restrict the free speech of teen-agers in order to protect them from the ills propagated by social-media companies?
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Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc