“The purpose of all of these laws is to deny young people access to information they have a constitutional right to receive, and also audiences they have a constitutional right to speak to,” EFF’s @davidgreene told @HonoluluCivil.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2026/04/teens-are-addicted-to-social-media-hawaii-is-reluctant-to-set-limits/
Teens Are Addicted To Social Media. Hawaiʻi Is Reluctant To Set Limits

A measure that would have required parental consent for kids under 16 to use social media was deferred indefinitely Wednesday. Similar laws in other states have been held up in court. 

Honolulu Civil Beat
@Electronic Frontier Foundation why regulate social media tech companies when you can regulate teens and make the addictiveness of algorithms their parents' problem...
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If we just levy a progressive tax on all paid advertising revenue these social media parasites would fold up shop and we would have the old Internet back almost overnight.