The Importance of Unrestricted Access to Social Media

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The 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act or COPA implicitly encodes 13 as the minimum age that you can sign up for a social media service. The original version of this act had 16 in there, like lobbyists in DC got that pushed down to 13. There's calls now to amend it back to 16.

Are smartphones bad for kids? Cal walks through the data on this question, including how researchers came to be worried, their findings, critiques of their findings, and where we are today. He then gives recommendations for how to think about technology when it comes to your kids.

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