Name: Can We Protect Kids Online?
Start: 2026-01-29T17:30:00.000-05:00
End: 2026-01-29T19:30:00.000-05:00
Location: Washington, District of Columbia

Bull Moose Institute

Practically everyone agrees that social media has had a deleterious effect on youth, from increasing rates of depression to horrific sextortion cases. But amidst the torrent of negative headlines and tragic examples, a question emerges: can we even manage to protect kids online? Is the internet doomed to be a permanent Wild West, or can something be done? 

And if so, who should be responsible: parents, social media companies, or the government?

Congress is currently wrestling with these questions, and we thought we would too. 

, President of the Digital Progress Institute and

, Lead Counsel of Tech Policy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).