No, I don't think they are.

No. No. We can't do enough to protect our kids. We got to make sure that our kids are aware of the threats on social media. Absolutely not.

The Dressler Black Hawk has been on this now for at least 20 years. Well, absolutely not. I think Senator Blackburn from the great state of Tennessee, my colleague, is going to hold her feet to the fire. I I haven't seen much of that. I've had hearings of my own, but that's yet to be seen. I'm sure they'll send something out that will be worthy to look at anyway. We'll see what they do to them.

It should be very obvious, but what you see in terms of the content, what's happening with youth depression, what's happening with youth suicide, a lot of it's driven by what they're getting access to in the social media.

Tech CEOs have utterly and completely failed to add adequately to protect children online. And that's the reason why they've lost trust. They've completely squandered their credibility. And everyone agrees, Republicans and Democrats, that we need to move forward with rules and safeguards for kids that are in the law, not relying on them to do the right thing.

We have a responsibility to protect children, of course, but it starts with parents.

Problem gets worse, not better.

Well, there's a lot more that we can do to safeguard children on social media. If look at the statistics and actually the numbers on the mental health issues caused by social media use and the addictive nature of that and the predatory nature of what goes on online, there's a whole lot more big tech to be doing.

Young children are being targeted for advertising, for indoctrination. One of their concerns with TikTok, for example, is the influence that communist China has. So we need to see more protections of our children on the Internet. So they are targeted in ways that can hurt them mentally, emotionally, or physically.

I want to see TikTok banned in the United States for a start.

They have the ability to adjust their algorithms to prevent advertising to children that targets children, especially preteens who are susceptible to criticism.

I don't think we can ever do enough to safeguard our children on social media. I think there's some constitutional considerations here between first amendment rights, which need to be balanced with the fact that a lot of these technologies are putting misinformation out and influencing not just our kids, but our constituents, our voters, in ways that, frankly, are nefarious in some cases. We've got to make the sure the protections are in place while still honoring the Constitution.