Based on the limited available data, reasonable people can disagree as to whether social media, on balance, are bad for kids. It probably depends on the individual circumstances. The logical response, then, is to leave the issue to their parents.
The Florida GOP doesn’t agree. It is pursuing a bill that would ban minors from setting up social media accounts, regardless of their parents’ wishes.
This stacks up with the treatment of transgender children as another example of GOP hypocrisy on “parents’ rights”. The reality is that the GOP only believes in “parents’ rights” when the parents in question are pushing a reactionary agenda.
It’s an ideological issue masquerading as an authority and process question.