re: Texas bill: under 18 banned from social media

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There's very few if any good reasons to have folks on social media.

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FIFY

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There's very few if any good reasons to have folks on social media.

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by When in Rome

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Number of Posts: 35911

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I think both of those have calculable and measurable effects on kids, social media does not.

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You’re just wrong. The entire premise you’ve based your argument upon is false.

Texas: muh freedom…unless…

After reading bill sent to the senate the proposed bill mentions enforcement only on social media companies/platforms not verifying persons are adults, allowing children to use, and abusing any private info obtained in verifying they are adults. (It mentions not using the data for anything else, transmitting it, or storing it as it must be deleted once age is verified).

It sets a timeframe after a parent or guardian requests the deletion of their child’s social media account that the account has to be deleted along with ceasing further use and maintenance of it retrievable form and ceasing future online collections based on personal data input into account across all a company’s platforms.

The bill does cover not only residents opening account or creating a profile but also those the social media company has identified with a unique identifier while using or accessing their social media platform.

These is no mention of enforcing law on kids or on parents. The only mention of limiting usage by kids is based on existing federal law.

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Sec. 120.112.  USE BY CHILDREN PROHIBITED.  To the extent permitted by federal law, including the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (15 U.S.C. Section 6501 et seq.), a child may not use a social media platform.

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Enforcement  

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Sec. 120.115.  ENFORCEMENT.  
(a)  A social media company violates this subchapter if the company knowingly:
 
             (1)  fails to verify a person's age before accepting the person as an account holder;
 
             (2)  allows a child to use its platform;
 
             (3)  misuses personal information in violation of Section 120.113(c); or
 
             (4)  fails to remove an account as required by Section 120.114.
 
       (b)  A violation of this subchapter by a social media platform is considered a deceptive trade practice under Chapter 17 and subject to action by the consumer protection division of the attorney general's office under Sections 17.47, 17.58, 17.60, and 17.61.

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I am not sure how well it narrows down to social media or how it excludes school message boards on school based programs, but it refers to other laws in some cases which I am not reading. Also, still not a fan of current means big tech has provided for verifying a person is an adult.

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"Social media platform" means an Internet website or application that is open to the public, allows a user to create an account, and enables users to communicate with other users for the primary purpose of posting information, comments, messages, or images.  

The term does not include:
 
                   (A)  an Internet service provider as defined by Section 324.055;
 
                   (B)  electronic mail;
 
                   (C)  an online service, application, or website:
 
                         (i)  that consists primarily of news, sports, entertainment, or other information or content that is not user generated but is preselected by the provider; and
 
                         (ii)  for which any chat, comments, or interactive functionality is incidental to, directly related to, or dependent on the provision of the content described by Subparagraph (i); or
 
                   (D)  an online service, application, or website used primarily for the purpose of interactive gaming.

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Quite frankly your ignorance on this topic is astounding

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I think social media is bad for kids, as I’ve said several times, I’m just not a big government democrat like all of you, which is ok

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Do you have kids especially any aged 12 and up?

I am also assuming you never did anything your parents tried to enforce on you not to do…

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This is just dumb. The only argument is that the government should stay the frick out. That's it.
Amazing that people would support shite like this, especially on a conservative message board.

And no, just because people are against this doesn't mean they think social media isn't bad for kids.

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If you drink any alcohol at all you will get drunk?

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Are you stupid, intellectually dishonest, illiterate, or a combination on the 3?

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A kid having a half of a glass of wine is not going to be harmful to them

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Alcohol, in any amount is harmful to the body. Not debatable

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We need fewer laws. Not more.

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*Federal*. We need fewer *federal* laws.



This is how state’s rights are supposed to work. Different states experiment with different social contracts so that the best ones can reveal themselves.

Personally, I’m glad that there is a state experimenting with removing a temptation that we know, unequivocally, our children are struggling mightily to navigate. We may not need this ban forever. But having someone experiment with banning it now will at least allow us to fully parse out the impacts.



This is exactly what the founders had in mind when they built this country… a laboratory of political experimentation where the cream of the crop rises to the top. I applaud Texas for having the balls to run an experiment that they know won’t be popular.