The Surgeon General’s call for social media warning labels is premature. Congress should pause and await further research.
Tag - children
Podcast, Kibbe on Liberty
Congress Is Using Kids to Impose Online Censorship | Guest: Yaël Ossowski | Ep 268
Won’t someone please think of the children? There’s a long history of politicians weaponizing supposed concern over protecting children to impose repressive legislation on the people.
Like most things right now, kids are being weaponized for political reasons on both sides of the aisle. Enough.
Podcast, Kibbe on Liberty
Stop Using Children to Justify Censorship | Guest: Shoshana Weissmann | Ep 231
Won’t someone please think of the children? From time immemorial, this has been the battle cry of the moral guardians who want to control what you’re allowed to see, hear, or think.
In the US, about 1 in 12 children under the age of 17 is on some sort of drug designed to combat mental illness, from antidepressants to antipsychotics to ADHD medications like Ritalin and Adderall.
Fashioning your philosophy before life really takes hold provides a necessary gaslight guard against political agenda-pushing.