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Jake Auchincloss: “We have no regulations to protect young kids' brains as they…”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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One SouthCoast Chamber Breakfast with Congressman Jake Auchincloss

Published | Video Starts at 13:03

We have tremendous numbers of regulations around bicycle helmets to protect young kids heads and their brains and seat belts to protect them in the case of an accident. And yet We have no regulations to protect young kids' brains as they are being affected on these applications. that they're spending four to eight hours a day scrolling. And so I think we have to act in a radically more muscular way than we have previously. (13:03–13:14)

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Asserts the lack of regulations to protect children from the cognitive effects of social media.

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