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You know... when I was in high school back in the early 90s, I'd spend half the night on local BBSes, which were sort of proto-social media restricted to a single phone number you could dial, and a little later I used IRC and Usenet by dialing in to the university computing system. And you know what happened? I was sleepy, but I made a lot of friends, some of them for life. There's a guy from Turkey I met on IRC when we were both in high school and I lived in the U.S. in Indiana. We still talk and we're both in our 40s. It was worth every minute. Even the times where I got harassed, and I did get harassed, on those local BBSes.
Somehow I survived all of that without turning into a drooling imbecile, a juvenile delinquent or commit suicide in my teens. (I also played D&D!)
Teenagers stay up late. That's just how they are. Let them enjoy it.
This is utah though, a state mostly controlled by mormons. The mormon families I know take all their kids' electronics before they are to go to bed, and don't give them back until the morning, some incl 18yo in high school. Monitoring everything they look at to make sure they don't see anything that could make them question their beliefs is common
This is just them pushing the strict control all the hyper religious families in utah already exercise onto everyone else, like all the other silly laws in utah