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| Rep. Jared Peterson |
Representative Jared Peterson has announced that he will be "introducing legislation next session to ban minors under 18 from using social media."
"It's long past time to recognize the incredible harm social media is doing to the mental health of young Texans. Next session, we put an end to it," Peterson stated. This whole concept is framed as protecting young people, something our Republican-dominated state has shown zero interest in doing. Republicans are not wrong in thinking that social media like YouTube has hurt their party and caused it to lose support among young people. Their problem is that young people can use social media to fact check far right Republican candidates's frequently nutty, QAnon-based statements. So, it becomes a free speech issue, but also an attempt to control what young people think and the information available to them. In all honesty, my two grandsons have likely learned as much from YouTube as public school and it would be incredibly obscene and un-American to block them and their peers' access to information. |
Who died and made him Speaker of the Law ? (Dr. Moreau reference)
ReplyDeleteThis is why I love when idiots speak. It exposes how dangerous they are. The Texas Bill of Rights on this issue is spot on, "Sec. 8. FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PRESS; LIBEL. Every person shall be at liberty to speak, write or publish his opinions on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that privilege; and no law shall ever be passed curtailing the liberty of speech or of the press"
ReplyDeleteWe must encourage people like him to speak, and hopefully at the polls the people will hold him accountable. .