Like most boomers, Congress seems to believe it can fix the problem by installing child-proof locks on the internet using bills called the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and COPPA 2.0.

The laws have been approved by the Senate Commerce Committee by a unanimous voice vote, meaning they all think they are doing their best – bless.

Congress believes that there is an ongoing mental health crisis amongst young people caused by social media.  But the laws are really bad because to follow them properly social media platforms will be forced to collect more user information.

The bills' authors, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, 71,  and Richard Blumenthal, 77, claim that the bill keeps kids from seeing content that “glamorises” eating disorders, suicidal thoughts, substance abuse, and gambling.

Of course kids of today don’t always pick up these things from the internet, many of them acquire such problems through genetics, their family, friends, and poverty.

The would also ban kids 13 and under from using social media and require companies to acquire parental consent before allowing children under 17 to use their platforms.

Another bill lawmakers approved, COPPA 2.0, raises the age of protection under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act from 13 to 16 years of age, along with similar age-gating restrictions. It bans platforms from targeting ads to kids.

While all these things seem laudable on paper they amount to online censorship and assume that children will not have worked away around them by about aged ten.

"When it comes to determining the best way to help kids and teens use the internet, parents and guardians should be making those decisions, not the government," Carl Szabo, NetChoice vice president and general counsel, said. "Rather than violating free speech rights and handing parenting over to bureaucrats, we should empower law enforcement with the resources necessary to do its job to arrest and convict bad actors committing online crimes against children."