Two laws signed by Republican Gov. Spencer Cox Thursday prohibit kids under 18 from using social media between the hours of 10:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m., require age verification for anyone who wants to use social media in the state and open the door to lawsuits on behalf of children claiming social media harmed them. Collectively, they seek to prevent children from being lured to apps by addictive features and from having ads promoted to them.
Social media companies could have to design new features to comply with parts of the laws that prohibit promoting ads to minors and showing them in search results. Tech companies like TikTok, Snapchat and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, make most of their money by targeting advertising to their users.
If the law is implemented, the digital privacy advocacy group said in a statement, "the majority of young Utahns will find themselves effectively locked out of much of the web." What's not clear in Utah's new law and those under consideration elsewhere is how states plan to enforce the new regulations. Companies are already prohibited from collecting data on children under 13 without parental consent under the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
The set of laws won support from parents groups and child advocates, who generally welcomed them, with some caveats. Common Sense Media, a nonprofit focused on kids and technology, hailed the effort to rein in social media's addictive features and set rules for litigation, with its CEO saying it "adds momentum for other states to hold social media companies accountable to ensure kids across the country are protected online.
Too funny, I bet the parents don’t even know that anything outside of Faceb00k exists.
Love that small government eh?
What about the guns?
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Utah, where you can divorce your wife but she will always be your sister?
How do you ever enforce that?
Oh well. Just give them a gun and tell them to go hunting classmates I guess.
And they will enforce this how?
But let’s protect them from the big bad internet. SMH
There is no ceiling to what I would give to get my teenage daughters off of social media.
This is laughable !How will they know? How will it be enforced? Kids…..if they want this will find a workaround.
I’m…. Not… opposed to it?
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