Counter argument is how "dystopia" is overused to mean "restrictiond I don't like". And of course parental rights, adults are not affected and parents get agency on how their child is raised. Parents have every right to censor and restrict content from their children and raise them however they see it fit so long as there is no immediate harm to the child while under their care. In other words parents have every right to raise the next hitler or raise a stupid useless person or someone that will need therapy for the rest of his/her life because of the upbringing.
You don't have to like it or approve of it and the whole point of such liberties is for the government and society to tolerate people they don't agree with because that person enjoys a certain right. In this case a parent has the responsibility to pay for a child's safety, food,shellter clothing and other stuff and also that parent originated that human so they get to decide how that human is shaped into an adult for better or worse. When the child becomes an adult it will have to make decisions to continue to live according to the upbringing or not.
It's Utah so you can imagine they would want their kids to be very different than every other state (and I don't mean just the mormon stuff).
This isn't an argument that no actual wolf is present, just a reminder that others have cried wolf before.
>> And of course parental rights, adults are not affected
Adults are subject to age verification including the connection of their ID to their social media profile. Facebook thinks I'm 118, and when I get ads for hearing aids on news sites it's illuminating. I will never send my ID to Meta, Twitter, or any other similar company — which means I will simply be shut out of that realm of discussion.
If parents want to limit their kids' exposure social media (and I very much do), it's on them to manage. If the government has a case of "think of the kids" and wants to regulate something, might I suggest something further up the "what actually kills kids" list, like enormous lifted trucks & SUVs?
You don't have to like it or approve of it and the whole point of such liberties is for the government and society to tolerate people they don't agree with because that person enjoys a certain right. In this case a parent has the responsibility to pay for a child's safety, food,shellter clothing and other stuff and also that parent originated that human so they get to decide how that human is shaped into an adult for better or worse. When the child becomes an adult it will have to make decisions to continue to live according to the upbringing or not.
It's Utah so you can imagine they would want their kids to be very different than every other state (and I don't mean just the mormon stuff).