Utah Gov. Spencer Cox wants to spare kids from their phones

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Utah is working to restrict teenage social media usage. Jane Coaston interviews Gov. Spencer Cox about why — and what is the limit of government power.

We knew that there would be some problem points that we would have to work through with the social media companies. And we don’t hate business. We want business to be able to thrive and succeed. But we also want people to be held accountable.Yeah, I’d be interested to think about those tweaks, because you mentioned that you would know that this was working if you saw rates of depression or rates of suicides going down.

I toured 29 schools in the past two months, and I asked the question, do you think social media is causing harm to your generation? They do. They know that this is causing harm, and they’re so often desperate for help. She’s pushed back hard. That is a battle that we have with her that we did not have with our older kids. My wife will tell you the same thing, that if we had to do it all over again, we would have waited much longer to give our kids a smart device.

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