Surgeon General Calls for Health Warnings on Social Media for Younger Users
June 17th, 2024If you have children, I hope you understand that you can ban the toxic social media nonsense:
On your router.
On the devices your children use (parental controls).
On DNS.
Via: ABC:
The U.S. surgeon general called on Monday for social media platforms to include health warnings for younger users.
“One of the most important lessons I learned in medical school was that in an emergency, you don’t have the luxury to wait for perfect information. You assess the available facts, you use your best judgment, and you act quickly,” Vivek H. Murthy wrote in an op-ed published in The New York Times “The mental health crisis among young people is an emergency — and social media has emerged as an important contributor.”
“It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents,” he wrote, calling on Congress to take action to require such a label.
