Former surgeon Vivic Morsi accused Congress of failing “in his responsibility to protect our children” from social media damage and called on legislators to “escalate and act now” in an interview with NBC News “Meet the Press” that was broadcast on Sunday.
Mortthi, who held the position of general surgeon during his administration, Obama and Biden, said he specifically wants to see Congress legislation that would force social media applications to include warning stickers about their children’s damages and will allow more data transparency from social media companies so that researchers can study the effects of the Internet on children more accurately.
The previous public surgeon compared social media to cars, noting the introduction of safety features such as seat belts, air bags and a collision test decades ago.
“These people have reduced the number of deaths,” Mortth said to “Meet the Press” Kristen Welker. “We have to do the same for social media, because what we are doing now, Christine, is that we are basically – it is equivalent to putting our children in cars without seats, with no air bags, and making them drive on the roads without speed limits or traffic lights. This is ethically unacceptable.”
Congress has tried in recent years to pass legislation to better organize social media platforms and their interactions with children, as the Senate passes the online safety law (KOSA) and the online privacy protection law for children and adolescents (COPPA 2.0) Last year, with strong support from the two parties.
But both projects faced the opposite winds from civil freedom groups and social media. COPPA 2.0 has faced criticism from advertising companies as it sought to update the 1998 law of the same name by increasing the age in which companies are allowed to collect information about children from 12 to 17 years. It also included judgments that would restricts how third -party companies declare children under the age of 17.
Meanwhile, Kousa will create a “care duty” for social media companies, making it legally responsible for feeding the content of children, which may be harmful to their mental health. Civil freedom groups have warned that social media companies could compensate for compensation to reduce their legal responsibility, which led them to monitor anything that can be considered controversial.
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Mortth, who is the author of the book 2020 “Together: Why does the social relationship carry the key to the best health, higher performance and greater happiness”, linking the high use of social media among children with the wider unit parents, warning that chronic unit can be harmful to people’s health.
The former surgeon said: “This is when it begins to increase inflammation in the body and increase the risk of heart disease, and other conditions that ultimately shorten our life.”
Mortthi added, it is not like online communications and the exchange of friendships and relationships with people personally.
“I am concerned, for young people in particular, is the effect of technology on their social relationship,” said the previous public surgeon. “We tend to think,” Oh, children on social media. This is great because they are associated with each other.
Murphy warned that “more children are struggling with this intense culture of self -appearing online, which tears their respect for themselves.”
He added: “Many of them are trying to be someone who are not on the Internet. In fact, they have many friendships personally as we all need. So you collect all this together and what you see is escalating with loneliness and isolation.”
Mortth also warned that children are more likely to experience the negative effects of social media just because their brains were not fully developed.
He said: “They are more vulnerable to social comparison and social proposal, and their driving control is not well developed. This exposes them more to the danger of the negative effects of social media.”
Former deputy Patrick J. Kennedy, the doctor, who is now a mental health defender, is also to “meeting the press”, agreed on Mortaki’s assertion that the government was not doing enough to help children on this front.
Kennedy told Welker: “Our country falls on its own responsibility as rulers for the future of our children,” Kennedy told Welker.
One of the suggestions he made is the creation of the “Prevention Fund”, noting that there is no preventive care for mental health diseases.
“If we are really serious about making a change, we need to simplify the system. We need to change the payment model. By the way, if we want good results, we have to invest in – what I call” the prevention box “of some kind.”
“I would not like all the warm, the state, the federalists, to put in dollars based on the actuarial effect of these diseases. Why do we not put some of these dollars in the Prevention Fund where we can identify these people at a higher risk of risks and investment now?” He added.
