Sugar and alcohol are very clearly negatives for a lot of people, I vote them next.

Well we tried it for alcohol and it didn’t go well, but enforcing the FDA limit on sugar would be a worthy experiment for a state that voted for it.

If your 14yo spends 90% of their waking life on any device it should be pretty obvious for a parent. If you let your kid spend that much time on a phone, then any government ban in place isn't going to do what you think it will.

When my kids got to an age they started asking for YouTube videos, I found it entirely frustrating that Youtube Kids was just not feasible to setup like you describe. It was a choice between 3 things, everything, the "kids" section whatever that meant for YouTube, and just tell them sorry, not happening. Within the kids section there seemed to be some controls to help, but I found they did not work well at all and I could easily watch anything in the expanded kids section. I'd have been happy with a whitelist for channels.

This is why blunt legislation is needed.

The existing parental control features are deliberately mis-designed, because there's a lot of money at stake and Meta / Google aren't stupid.

Does anyone really think they didn't run uptake and engagement impact tests on various proposed parental control options... and then ship the one that impacted their revenue least?

The only reason there are controls, in any sense, is as a fig leaf when the lawsuits inevitably started flying (read: now), so they can say 'See, we take this very seriously...'

The poster seems to be asking to limit access to the platform, not change the platform to be non-addictive. I understand what you are saying is what the law is trying to accomplish, but I think they are clearly expressing the desire to limit all kids access to social media apps.

This is about California. A place where an overwhelming majority of tires are all season, which are exempt from this.

Which makes it at best ineffectual, the same as almost all regulation in California

I'm not sure about your imagination. If people had worse tires then it would be even more difficult to go straight from the far left lane to the offramp 20 above the flow of traffic. /s

Off-ramp? They have trouble going in a straight line.

Just wait until 1 of those 3 employees left has surgery and needs FMLA, or out on maternity leave. Then it'll be even more capable. /s

Maternity leave? Women aren’t allowed to work in the Hegseth era!

That is a very tiny percentage of overall crashes, it is not a normal failure.

I'd accept punch cards.

The Catholic Church is made up of people and people do all kinds of things and make all kinds of choices in life. As others have pointed out, it's very possible to talk about the struggles of your community without calling out Bob in the third row.