withersailor@aussie.zone to World News@beehaw.org · 2 years agoTexas bans kids from social media without parental consentwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10cross-posted to: lemmyworld@lemmy.world
arrow-up116arrow-down1external-linkTexas bans kids from social media without parental consentwww.theverge.comwithersailor@aussie.zone to World News@beehaw.org · 2 years agomessage-square7fedilinkcross-posted to: lemmyworld@lemmy.world
minus-squarecjones666@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 years agoI get the sentiment but I’m sure the execution will be ineffective at best.
minus-squaremarshoepial@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-22 years agoOr: ✅ are you a parent who gives their child permission to access this site? This reminds me of those website ads that’d tell you to ask your parents first.
minus-squareThebazilly@pathfinder.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years ago…How is this even possible to enforce? Are they going to make websites collect scans of everyone’s ID like what PornHub was protesting?
minus-squarePerdendosi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoThe social media provider must “verify, using a commercially reasonable method” the person’s identity and the relationship to the minor. You cam do that through credit card probably.
minus-squareaverage650@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoI think most parents would allow it anyway.
I get the sentiment but I’m sure the execution will be ineffective at best.
✅ Are you 18 years or older?
Or: ✅ are you a parent who gives their child permission to access this site?
This reminds me of those website ads that’d tell you to ask your parents first.
…How is this even possible to enforce? Are they going to make websites collect scans of everyone’s ID like what PornHub was protesting?
The social media provider must “verify, using a commercially reasonable method” the person’s identity and the relationship to the minor.
You cam do that through credit card probably.
I think most parents would allow it anyway.