Thomas Kitchens
Brendan NyhanCan we pair it with an age maximum for service in the Senate?
Brian Orce 
@brendannyhan @Popehat maximum age for social media, wouldn’t be the worst idea either
Mxhrad@JIMNOBU @brendannyhan @Popehat
Yeah. Once you hit retirement age, go out and enjoy the world, instead of going down the fascist conspiracy theory rabbit hole and losing your friends and family and the respect of everyone around you.
Kevin Leecaster@brendannyhan
The Senate has whatever age limit voters impose already.
The Senate has whatever age limit voters impose already.
Ton Chrysoprase@GreenFire @brendannyhan Well, social media has whatever age limit parents impose already.
@TonChryso @brendannyhan
"Well, social media has whatever age limit parents impose already."
Have you ever been a parent? If so yours seems to have been different than the experience I had. I restricted my children's access to porn for example through my router, so they spent more time at their friends houses. Should I have kept them from going outside the house?
@GreenFire @brendannyhan Have you been a voter?
We can play this all day.
Yes, I'm a parent. I'm also not an idiot, so my primary contribution to managing my kids' porn consumption is talking to them about it and recommending the good stuff that doesn't warp their healthy approach to sexuality.
At least as a parent you have some influence. As a voter that entirely depends on where you live and whether Republicans have the ability to prevent your vote from counting.
Robin Whitworth@GreenFire @TonChryso @brendannyhan Super curious how you think they (government or site owners) are going to do a better job at this.
Dan@GreenFire @TonChryso @brendannyhan I am a parent. The solution to social media and porn is not to ban it. That does nothing to solve any problems.
Like a abstinence programs - It always makes the situation worse.
Instead, prepare them to handle it properly and safely.
Something our generation never got. And one reason why we are so screwed up over it.
@Danielsand @GreenFire @brendannyhan I mean, I found ways to access porn when it actually required effort...
@TonChryso @GreenFire @brendannyhan (/me and my older brother squints at unscrambled static on an unscrambled cable channel) “Was that nipple?”
But seriously - yup. They will find a way. We all did. Why let them make the same mistakes we did?
@GreenFire @TonChryso @brendannyhan No, we should all suffer because you can’t control your children
Michal Bryxí 🌱@GreenFire I just love how that sentence suggests that your desired result is for your kids to watch porn in their friends house 👨🍳💋
And I'd distinguish between "I intend them to not to" and "they can't". Younger generations are often times way more tech savvy than the previous ones 😉
And I'd distinguish between "I intend them to not to" and "they can't". Younger generations are often times way more tech savvy than the previous ones 😉
cat anthropologist 🏳️⚧️@GreenFire @brendannyhan which is apparently 135
Ari Ofsevit@brendannyhan all those age minima for things like alcohol sites are airtight so this would be so easy to implement.
david koblas@brendannyhan What's the DEI on Senate ages relative to the population as a whole? I know that the senate is the "older"/"wiser" congressional body... but I think it's just older.
Éibhear 🔭
XaiaX ̆̈@brendannyhan @Popehat make it the same number.
@brendannyhan and the House please
@brendannyhan I am going to just assume that Senator Cotton, Ted Cruz, and other GOP senators added a rider that exempts all of the teenage girls who post on instagram from this social media ban.
@brendannyhan Only if you amend the Constitution
Seán Fenian@brendannyhan And for the White House. Enough geriatric Presidents and Senators already. Capitol Hill needs new blood and new ideas.
Aquatic Cat-Fey@brendannyhan Or just require anyone running for public office to pass a civics test (with the study materials freely available). Of course: the #GQP would then screech either if one of their own failed it, or if some opposition scapegoat whom they'd derided as "stupid" 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 it.