By now, there’s a mountain of evidence that social media—not to mention, like, the internet in general—is not particularly good for children. With an iPhone, the average teenager has access to every terrible thing on the web that adults do, but none of the emotional maturity to handle it. Teens now spend hours on their phones every single day, and, despite the fact that many teens say social media is bad for them , they can’t seem to pry themselves loose from it.

And the problems linked to social media? Social and psychological maladies galore, increased anxiety and depression , etc, etc, etc.

In the U.S., states are kinda sorta catching up to this fact and, in lieu of any federal action, producing their own regulatory restrictions on teen digital access. In other countries, gov

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