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Texas will require parental consent for kids to use social media (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

On one hand preventing kids from developing a social media addiciton is good. On the other this law will probably cause a lot of issues. Some issues that i can think of on the spot are:

How exactly do you verify age. Kids can just lie about it and social media platforms requiring a national ID is a stupidly bad idea just from the privacy concerns. I don't want every website to have my ID because:

A. This would make tracking people between platforms much easier.

B. One data leak from one website and milions of people have their govt IDs available on-line along with names, phone numbers, e-mail addreses and possibly even addresses (from billing information) and answers to security questions (from posts)
I'm worried that this will cause a lot of social media platforms to go the way that youtube went, ie. no NSFW, swearing or anything even remotly not kid-friendly.