A conservative Christian law firm, wants more social media guardrails to protect kids.

So the firm is pushing a plan, giving parents more power to control what a child sees and how long the child can spend online.

Supporters made their case today to members of the Kentucky General Assembly's AI task force.

Our June Lefler has more in tonight's legislative update.

A national group is working with a Nicholasville Republican on a social media bill.

The two testified before Kentucky's artificial intelligence task force today.

Even neutral content has a harmful impact on our youth, and not because of the actual design of social media itself.

It is designed to be addictive.

The Alliance Defending Freedom is best known for its work at the U.S.

Supreme Court, successfully representing a wedding cake baker and a web designer who both refused to work with gay clients.

The group occasionally appears in Frankfort advocating for religious liberty legislation.

Now it is proposing state rules to limit what Kentucky's kids can see on social media based on parent preferences, where the parent can control time online, the type of content there's parameters and limitations, and the child's account is automatically set to the most private default setting you can have on the social media platform.

And then finally, it removes the ability to commoditize children's data in this this addictive arms race that we're in, they cannot advertise to children.

State Representative Matthew Lockett successfully passed a bipartisan bill in 2024 to restrict kids from accessing pornography.

It required adult sites to verify a user's age with their ID.

The site, Pornhub, ultimately cut off access to Kentucky and other states altogether because of such laws.

The goal of this legislation, is to, protect our children from addictive natures of social media.

So the websites such as TikTok, Facebook, those, those types of things where there is infinite scrolling, where there is ads directed at children, because we do know the harmful effects of social media on kids that it's documented.

Some lawmakers suggest their kids are victim to lax age restrictions.

Last year, I did an informal survey of my seventh grade son's class, and more than half the boys had gambling apps that they were using on on their phones.

You know, when Charlie Kirk was shot, my son saw that video that day, even though his his phone set up.

YouTube knows he's he's 13 years old.

All the parental controls are enabled.

He saw, you know, him take a bullet to the neck and it affected him.

Full model legislation was not presented at this meeting.

The Alliance Defending Freedom did not say if it's pushing similar legislation in other states.

For Kentucky edition, I'm June Leffler.