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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsas of March 1, 24 all Utahns will be required to provide proof of age to use social media
Utah Is Getting Aggressive on Kids' Use of Social MediaChildren will need parental consent as part of new age-verification rules
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is set to sign SB 152, the "social media regulation act," a bill that will restrict minors from social media use without parental permission. Legal adultspeople 18 or oldercould also lose access to their accounts if they don't follow an age verification process. Axios reports that the bill passed final legislative barriers and that Cox said he would sign it, calling it Utah's way to hold "social media companies accountable for the damage that they are doing to our people." After the bill is signed, Utahns will be required to present proof of age in order to use social media beginning on March 1, 2024.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that SB 152 was sponsored by Republican State Sen. Mike McKell. Rep. Jordan D. Teuscher, also a Republican, brought it to the floor, where during House debate he said parents would be empowered by the legislation to have more say in what their kids do online. Others have expressed concerns, however, over the way bills like this impact online privacy. California TV station KGO interviewed San Jose State University professor and tech expert Ahmed Banafa, who said, "This bill is a censorship, that's the only thing I can name it, on the kids ability to get access to it."
Banafa expressed worries about how such measures could lead to undue exposure of personal information through platform hacks and also about how once such information is no longer under individual control, it will "be in the hands of corporate America, social media, all the platformsthey own it." And in that case, according to Banafa, the platforms "can do whatever they want for that without coming back to us. If they got caught, they'll just pay the fine and move on." Axios, however, notes that Utah's bill represents a "radical version" of ideas already under discussion in Washington, and says that a federal bill seeking the same restrictions
would have a tough time passing at the national level.
https://www.newser.com/story/332409/in-utah-kids-will-need-parents-ok-for-social-media.html
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as of March 1, 24 all Utahns will be required to provide proof of age to use social media (Original Post)
BlueWaveNeverEnd
Mar 2023
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Brought to you by... *checks notes*... The party of deregulation and small government.
RockRaven
Mar 2023
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RockRaven
(14,951 posts)1. Brought to you by... *checks notes*... The party of deregulation and small government.
Matthew28
(1,796 posts)2. These assholes
literally want saudi arabia or Iran for America. These are control freaks and are the very opposite of limited government. They're only limited government when it comes to helping the poor! How sick is that?
C_U_L8R
(44,996 posts)3. There's no way they can enforce their own stupid law.
But it might get hilarious.
Haggard Celine
(16,843 posts)4. Makes me think of the survey
they did to see who watched the most porn online, and most were in the Bible Belt. I think Utahs numbers were pretty high, too. Repressed fuckers have some twisted morality.