In the social media age, Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, and Prince Harry appear to have voiced worries about their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.
The California-based royal couple urged US lawmakers to take action in a lengthy statement and video posted on their Archewell website about children’s online safety.
They also participated in a bipartisan US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on internet child protection.
The unified statement with the caption “Protecting Children Online” was later posted by them.
“We applaud the bravery and determination of the thousands of parents across the country whose advocacy resulted in this hearing,” Meghan and Harry said in their statement.
We have spent time with several of these families over the past five years, hearing about their suffering
Their goals for the immediate transformation of the internet that is required. As the Senate hearing today demonstrated, this is a problem that cuts across party lines and divisions.
Even the most attentive parents are unable to completely protect their kids from these platforms. “All of our children would still be here if love could have saved them,” one of the fathers told us.
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“Now is not the time to pass the buck of responsibility,” the statement continues. Now is the moment to implement the essential changes at the source to safeguard our kids.
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