Big Tech Doesn’t Have A Right To Speak To Kids Without Their Parent’s Consent

By treating Arkansas' social media law as a restriction on speech in his injunction, Arkansas Judge Timothy Brooks made a key category error.
Adam Candeub, Clare Morell, and Michael Toscano
The Federalist

Future generations will wonder why, when parents and legislators tried to use the democratic process to end Big Tech’s massive experiments on America’s children, the judicial system said “no.”

The experiment results are in—they are not good. In a recent advisory, the Surgeon General has declared a “national youth mental health crisis,” as both sexes report unprecedented levels of depression, loneliness, and anxiety—not to mention large spikes in the rates of self-harm and suicide among teens.

Eminent researchers, such as Jean Twenge and Jonathan Haidt, place much of the blame squarely on social media.

For WORLD Opinions, Brad Littlejohn warns that the strength of the American economy should be a wake-up call to the right.

Also for WORLD, Nathanael Blake writes that California Gov. Gavin Newsom's recent veto is proof that opposing transgender radicalism can be a political winner.

The parents' rights movement needs to learn from the mistakes of the Tea Party, writes Patrick T. Brown for CNN.

And for the Dispatch, Patrick writes about why the pro-life movement wasn't ready for the post-Roe world.

In his Washington Post column, Henry Olsen calls on Speaker McCarthy to hit the GOP defectors in the house where it hurts: their reelection prospects.

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