Online Public Relations Thoughts

Meta has added new teen and parental supervision features to Instagram, but they require a teenager to opt in and for the teen to allow parents to regulate viewing time.  The obvious question is how many teens are going to allow their parents to monitor them?  Meta's rules seem more like a fig leaf for its reputation than a positive control placed on teen viewing.  But, who knows?  Meta is in a difficult position, caught between the viewers it needs and growing evidence that the young are injured by content on social media. It is one of the unsolved dilemmas of the social media age and almost certainly, government will get involved.  How do you modulate First Amendment rights in an era of ubiquitous communication and protect those who aren't ready for the chaos of Free Speech?  It's an interesting challenge.