If you're under 16, you can say goodbye to social media, unless mom and dad say it's okay.

There was a new state law that was passed this session, and it created some social media restrictions for kids.

Starting next year, kids under 16 can no longer use popular social media sites unless

those sites get the okay directly from mom and dad. And this week, Governor Mike Braun,

signing that bill into law and that's going to create these restrictions for Indiana kids.

So, yeah, we're limiting social media for kids 16 and under. It's meant to protect children,

but here's the question. Is it turning the state into a digital referee of childhood?

Yes, it is. I've been against this since it was first discussed early on in legislative session

because this is the government looking to

solve a problem that parents should be solving this shouldn't be the government

getting involved in this and so if I am a parent and I want to go through the

process of allowing my kid to access social media what do I have to do I'm

gonna have to I assume I'm gonna to have to, I assume, I'm going to have

to upload photo ID and documents. And now I'm relying on that social media entity to protect my

privacy and all of my information that I've uploaded to potential data breaches that exist out

there. And by the way, just so that you know, kids are pretty smart

when it comes to digital devices.

And I'm gonna guess that if some kid wants to-

Work around.

Wants to use, you know, AI-created licenses and documents

and age verification systems and maybe a VPN to get around this. I'm going to guess it's going to be

pretty easy for kids to get around this process. Okay, so this is going to require age verification,

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