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When society criminalizes outdoor independence, it makes smart phone addiction more likely.

Prominent social psychologist and NYU professor calls the requirement “explicitly ideological.”

Politically speaking, the internet is pretty much a disaster. One writer suspects that unhinged, unregulated social media are partly responsible for a retreat from democratic values — more tribalism, more violent rhetoric and less respect for law — pretty much around the world.

The bill makes little note of parents' ability to control their own children's social media access.