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Texas will require parental consent for kids to use social media
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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If the law designed is any good, there should be none. The responsibility to check whether the parent has agreed should be laid on the social media giants, not the child or the parent. It should be a tool for parents to control the social media consumption of their kids. And after reading the article, which I highly recommend, it seems to be the case:
Please read the articles that you post. Asking follow-up questions that are already answered is a little stupid.
Yes, of course I read the article before I posted it. The answers are not contained within. Think deeper, friend:
How? How will this actually be performed?
I've been a paying subscriber to Ars Technica for something like 15-ish years now. I read the article, and then read the comments on their website, where others there have the same concerns. Then I posted it here. I agree that it's silly to ask questions that an article answers, but that's not the case here.
I hope that here on Beehaw, we can work to build a community that has more grace than the ones we left behind, and assume the best intentions from others.
the article say some bullshit ... "platforms will be required to verify the ages of all minors" ok, fine ... but wait ... how can they do that??? Do they have to asks for every users worldwide their documents? And suspend any users that doesn't prove he's not a minor from one of those states?
Of course this law doesn't prevent these companies from monetizing the information they'd gather. Huge privacy implications here if every account has identification and relationship records.