Stronger minimum-age laws for social media — we already have a federal law dating back to 1998; it’s just honored mostly in the breach — have broad popular support but have also drawn criticism. My latest column examines what I consider among the most powerful arguments against such laws: that they amount to a governmental usurpation of the authority of parents.

I note that governments

routinely use their powers in ways that could be said to infringe parents’ rights but are more commonly understood as helping parents. Many of these policies are not........

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