“Why expect our children to wear seat belts when we can ask everyone to drive responsibly?”
Americans are smart enough to recognize that as crazy talk, so much so that we’ve implemented law enforcement nationwide to protect our families from dangerous behavior on the road.
On the digital highway, however, commonsense precautions are nowhere to be found, and our children are suffering more than ever.
American children today spend twice as much time on social media as they do in the car, on average. And with each passing minute, our unregulated attention economy inundates their minds with obscenity, addiction, and other forms of exploitation.
Recognizing this should lead us to two sobering conclusions: Our society is asleep at the wheel and our children don’t have seat belts.
Earlier this year, a pothole in the form of a lengthy Wall Street Journal…
