re: Texas bill: under 18 banned from social media

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I'm an adult and believe it's toxic, especially forto devoping brain of children

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Then keep your kids off of it. Extremely simple concept

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I'm an adult and believe it's toxic, especially forto devoping brain of children

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I do to, which is why I plan on keeping my kids off of it. I don't want the government getting into every aspect of parenting. I prefer personal responsibility over regulatory solutions.

I'm not for large government control, but parents cannot be everywhere all the time. Sometimes goods parents doing everything right can have good children who make bad decisions.

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Sometimes goods parents doing everything right can have good children who make bad decisions.

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This must be a new thing because that has never happened before in history. Thank you for shedding light on this being a recent problem that the Government must step in to assist with.

Thanks for changing my mind!

Good they should .

I don’t think a study can tell you that there is any benefit to letting kids have social media.

I’d be willing to bet it’s 99% detrimental.

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Cut off the social media and see how much happier everyone is. It’s great.

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The word for today: Irony

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I absolutely do not want any government having any say whatsoever in how I raise my kids and I dont give a shite who's in government doing it.

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Why have any laws distinguishing actions, privileges, obligations, or punishments based on being below age of 18 or being 18 & above?? Or adding any protective help on criminalizing the acts of others based only on the other person being below age of 18??

Regardless this is telling social media companies the required age for allowing the creation of an account. It does not appear to criminalize the actions of the kid or parent but the actions of the company (going solely by linked report and not reading thru entire bill). Accounts created must be created by someone the companies have to verify as being 18 years or older. It doesn’t force using real name, so in theory a parent can still create a profile and then hand it over to their kid.

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Under House Bill 186, ]social media companies[/u] would be banned from allowing people in Texas under 18-years-old to create accounts. The platforms would also have to implement measures to verify the ages of users. Social media companies can use a commercially reasonable method that relies on public or private transactional data to verify age, so potentially uploading a photo ID.

Accounts could still be publicly anonymous, and there is nothing in the bill that requires people to use their name or photo on their profile, so long as the social media company verifies that they are above the age of 18.

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Outside of any words in bill not focused on in the OP’s article one could make the argument that this is empowering parents more than current laws on social media by requiring the parents to create any social media account they want their kid to use.

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Yes and I can think you are dumb for thinking its OK for the state to tell you how to raise your kids even more so than they already do.

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I'm not totally sure how I feel about a bill like this. I think social media is incredibly detrimental to minors (and shite, adults too) and would hope parents would shield their children from it. I'm largely against more laws and govt interference in our lives. That said, we have all sorts of laws governing what children can and cannot do (get into an R-rated movie, get a tattoo, drive, etc) which exist for largely the same reason this one would.