Many of Shoshana's argument's seemed to boil down to "because the 1A" and it came off weak, at least to me. That's a weird thing to have to say, because while I am not a free speech absolutist, if there's a spectrum I'm definitely closer to free speech absolutism than the opposite extreme. One thing that stood out to me was when you pushed back that we limit things like alcohol, and she came back with the fact that alcohol does measurable damage to your body and mind...and it's like, well, that's also kind of the point of a big chunk of Haidt's book, no? Real psychological effects on kids exposed to social media?
The podcast with Shoshana was frustrating for me to listen to. At every turn, she posits that laws can't change because first amendment concerns, therefore it's up to the parents to solve the problem. This problem is not intractable as she seems to think. My son uses our Xbox and it's limited, by my discretion, to a specific ESRB rating. Something like that could be doable for apps/games/social media on the kids devices.
Many of Shoshana's argument's seemed to boil down to "because the 1A" and it came off weak, at least to me. That's a weird thing to have to say, because while I am not a free speech absolutist, if there's a spectrum I'm definitely closer to free speech absolutism than the opposite extreme. One thing that stood out to me was when you pushed back that we limit things like alcohol, and she came back with the fact that alcohol does measurable damage to your body and mind...and it's like, well, that's also kind of the point of a big chunk of Haidt's book, no? Real psychological effects on kids exposed to social media?
The podcast with Shoshana was frustrating for me to listen to. At every turn, she posits that laws can't change because first amendment concerns, therefore it's up to the parents to solve the problem. This problem is not intractable as she seems to think. My son uses our Xbox and it's limited, by my discretion, to a specific ESRB rating. Something like that could be doable for apps/games/social media on the kids devices.