take a step back you are not allowed to buy a cigarette until 18. if you can t buy addictive cigarettes there should be a when you use addictive products if you are a kid as well. maybe when you are a form formed adult. as a society you have to be ready to use certain products and able to make choices on your own. data sin creationly suggesting a dickive social media that preys on our psychological insecurities ought to be in a category that has real risk force kids that we ought to have a conversation about in the open. i don t see enough of that happening either on capitol hill nor our culture and in our ofamilies where it actually begins. todd: here is the great work by the wall street journal. we re requesting to pop it up on the screen. facebook notes instagram is it toxic for teen girls company documents show. are they only pausing this because they got caught? absolutely. there is no doubt about it this is todd what we need to be holding facebook and other social media compa
journal s reporting other stories that same week, too. revealing that facebook lied oversight board after spending $130 million to create it they knew they were doing something wrong and preceded with it anyway. that s what we should hold these companies accountable for no trust with user basements we shouldn t believe a word they are saying. different than holding them accountable for teen body images. holding them accountable for anger management issues. those have to do with underlying features of our human condition that we have to address in the offline world in our families in our churches and your communities. it critics of facebook saying they didn t make teen body issues perfect. that is not facebook s job. we shouldn t want that to be facebook s job. limit the scope and be honest with us. the rest of the job we have to do in the offline world first. i often argue virtue is a precondition for capitalism to work. it s not a product of capitalism. no phenomenon has taught us tha