Ben Shapiro

Again, kids are a different story.

The reason that this particular lawsuit is emotionally appealing is because it's about a kid who got addicted and kids do get addicted.

And honestly, I blame their parents as the primary source.

I don't let my kids get addicted to things.

It's my job to prevent that.

I don't give my kids candy bars, even though they want candy bars every single day all the time.

And if I decide to feed that to them, then they get type 1 diabetes.

I don't think that's on the candy company.

I think it's on me.

My biggest problem here is that we start blaming technologies for our failures as adults.

We actually have to look to ourselves to solve some of these problems.

Now, again, I'm going to point out AI here because AI, unlike social media, I think social media, there's an argument to be made that social media barely has positives.

I think that for a person who runs a company that uses social media because that is the way people consume information.

I will say that I think that social media has been a massive net negative for humanity in general, a massive net negative.

I do not think the same thing is true of AI, which is a world changing technology.

So six days ago, the Trump administration issued a six point comprehensive national legislative framework.

The first point of that framework was the most salient in this context.

They said, quote, protecting children and empowering parents.

Parents are best equipped to manage their children's digital environment and upbringing.

The administration is calling on Congress to give parents tools to effectively do that, such as account controls to protect their children's privacy and manage their device use.