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for the california legislation there were no "nay" votes. it's disapointing this performatively protective stance permeates both dominant right-of-global-center parties in America, but it is "all of them"

Pretty much the same laws in red and blue states yeah. It always gets confusing when Americans use the word liberal, everyone is a liberal, it never meant *your* liberty.

Well yeah: Meta wrote the bill, Meta greases palms in their home state, Meta gets their bill unanimously passed.

It's not a liberal policy, it's an illiberal one bending the knee to feudal techbros.

It's quite conservative. Liberalism means I can use my device with no laws in between.

Not conservative (there's nothing traditional about this) or liberal, just surveillance authoritarianism.

In the past, children were not allowed their own phone. To be particularly cautious, smartphones have not proven a net good; and we're 20 years in.

> surveillance authoritarianism.

last i checked thats what their so called "traditional values" and "conservatism" were actually.