joining us live now to talk about the online safety bills and more, erika felix, professor of clinical psychology at uc santa barbara. professor felix, thanks for coming on our show. >> thank you for having me. >> i think you're the perfect person to talk about this because you're not only a professor in clinical psychologist, but you had a congressional fellowship. i understand in policy matters. so given all that, what is your view on the kids online safety act and teens online privacy protection act? >> i think this is a good step forward because, we know that the tech companies keep advancing much quicker than our legislation has advanced. and so i think it's about time for congress to act on this. there's been several hearings that have shown that there are significant risks as well as benefits of social media to our kids, but we want to minimize those risks. and i think protecting our children's privacy data, making it so that parents have more control and monitoring and better regulations on this, can just help us make it so that the social media experience of our youth, tends t