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- The Georgia State legislature passed a measure that seeks to protect the well-being and online safety of every one of Georgia’s kids.
- Now, the governor should sign it.
- Nearly 40 percent of children between the ages of 9 and 11 have been exposed to pornography, and that statistic doubles for 12- to 17-year-olds.
- House Bill 910 requires pornography websites to verify that a user is at least 18 through a commercial age verification system that includes, but is not limited to, submission of a government-issued identification or a digitized identification card.
- Explicit content is not only on porn websites. Social media is flooded with accounts — bot, spam and legitimate — with pornographic content in effort to entice users to their external content.
- Requiring age verification on porn websites will not prevent social media users from seeing this content on social media platforms, but it will place roadblocks for children who click these links on social media and other websites.
- This bill is a victory for advocates for age verification, concerned parents and, of course, children.
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- In 1913, Woodrow Wilson and his progressives promised that the Federal Reserve would avert both depressions and inflation, while preventing the wealthy from controlling America’s financial markets at the expense of the poor.
- Over a century later, it’s clear that was all a lie, and the Fed has helped create a permanent American underclass.
- For two decades, the Fed kept interest rates artificially low to help finance massive levels of government spending.
- The painful inflation of the last three years has increased prices throughout the economy, distorting the signals that prices are supposed to convey to buyers and sellers.
- This phenomenon represents the monetization of housing, where a dwelling becomes a much better store of value than the currency, even if the real value of the house hasn’t improved.
- It’s truly a condemnation of the status quo when even those with seemingly high incomes cannot afford a typical home.
- The Fed’s monetary manipulations have financed trillions of dollars in federal budget deficits, but they’ve also created a permanent American underclass, something antithetical to the Founder’s vision for the country.
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- The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last week came as quite a shock.
- President Biden has said that the federal government would foot the entire bill for rebuilding the bridge and demanded that Congress make it happen.
- Fortunately, it’s possible for Washington to help Maryland rebuild the bridge without driving the nation deeper into debt.
- First, all officials must be clear that the cost of rebuilding should mostly or entirely fall on the owners and operators of the ship, even if the incident was purely accidental.
- Second, there’s no need for Congress to authorize new funding to begin clearing the shipping channel and rebuilding the bridge.
- Congress and the administration can help reconstruction further by cutting burdensome red tape that adds delays and costs to federally funded projects.
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