The Texas social media law takes effect September 1.

How do they even plan on enforcing this? What would possibly be the consequences for either parent or child if they violate?

  • minode@szmer.info
    10·
    2 years ago

    What would possibly be the consequences for either parent or child if they violate?

    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:

    The broad law comes with heavy burdens for online platforms. It requires basically any digital services provider that collects an email at sign-up to conduct age verification to identify all minors, verify parents or guardians connected to all minors identified, and secure parental consent for a wide range of account activity.

    Please read the articles that you post. Asking follow-up questions that are already answered is a little stupid.

    • Leigh@beehaw.orgOPM
      6·
      2 years ago

      Yes, of course I read the article before I posted it. The answers are not contained within. Think deeper, friend:

      It requires basically any digital services provider that collects an email at sign-up to conduct age verification to identify all minors, verify parents or guardians connected to all minors identified…

      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.

    • Sean@infosec.pubEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • Edo78@feddit.it
      2·
      2 years ago

      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?