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The Supreme Court is about to decide if children still have free speech rights

This kid can’t download apps any more in Texas. | Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images It’s not a great time to be a parent. Young people get their information from platforms that did not exist just a few years ago and that many adults have never even heard of. Many parents, who did not grow up using TikTok or even YouTube, do not know how to counsel their children on how to function in a hyper-online world. Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation, which argues that smartphones kicked off an epidemic of mental illness among young people, is a runaway bestseller for a reaso...