Seems perfectly contradictory to me, "We need to shelter our kids from the big bad social media because they are too fragile to handle it"

Right and "We need to shelter our kids from crack cocaine because they are too fragile to handle it" is perfectly contradictory too.

If the person saying that had been previously famous for calling for the legalisation of cannabis, and wrote a whole book about how the war on drugs was misguided and led to terrible outcomes and then never addressed the obvious overlap between the two stances, that would also be strange.