Washington Post
A Senate panel announced Monday it subpoenaed the CEOs of Elon Musk’s X, Discord and Snap to testify at a hearing on children’s online safety next month after “repeated refusals” by the tech companies to cooperate with its investigation into the matter.
In a rare show of force, the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee are seeking to force X’s Linda Yaccarino, Discord’s Jason Citron and Snap’s Evan Spiegel to appear at the Dec. 6 session, which the panel said in a press release would “allow Committee members to press CEOs from some of the world’s largest social media companies on their failures to protect children online.”
The committee announced that it also expects Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew to appear voluntarily. Spokespeople for Snap, Discord and TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Meta declined to comment.
The rare move marks a major escalation by lawmakers probing how social media platforms may harm children’s mental health, an area of broad bipartisan interest on Capitol Hill.
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Via https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/20/senate-subpoena-musk-x-snap-kids/
The Most Revolutionary Act 
Government over-reach, yet again . . .
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Well now, to be fair, PARENTS need to step in and monitor what their children are up to online. Fact of the matter is, children do NOT need to be sitting somewhere staring at a smartphone, talking about they are on social media. If I had a school-age child, he/she would be the only one who would NOT be walking around with a smartphone, and he/she would most likely not be attending school either. Start holding parents accountable for what their children are up to. After all, it is their responsibility.
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I agree. The nanny state costs everyone.
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I’m very sympathetic with parents on this issue. At the moment, the monopoly tech companies are openly dispensing sex and suicide porn to young people over the Internet. I agree with anti-trust laws that allow the government to regulate monopoly activities that are harmful to the public. The federal regulatory agencies clearly won’t do so I agree with Congress stepping in. With parents being forced to work two to three jobs each just to survive, I feel they simply don’t have the time or the tools to monitor what their kids see online. Children’s online activity is creating an entire generation of damaged young people, and the entire society suffers as a result.
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