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What is a social media site defined as? In California, the definition includes any online forum and majority of sites allowing user-submitted content. (Granted

What is a social media site defined as? In California, the definition includes any online forum and majority of sites allowing user-submitted content. (Granted, California has a minimum revenue requirement.) Under a similar definition, this block anyone under 18 from having any accounts on the vast majority of popular sites. Also, if you squint at it, this could equally apply to any video game company allowing communication between players.

daveslash 4y ago
Not to mention, what does it mean to use? Is passively consuming content without contributing or even creating an account using? Because, if so.... this means that YouTube gets turned upside down in this case.
- LegionMammal978 4y ago
  > Not to mention, what does it mean to use? Presumably, to use a platform is to be a user of that platform, where a user is "a person who posts, uploads, transmits, shares, or otherwise publishes or receives content through a social media platform" [0]. Since YouTube is unambiguously a social media platform by Texas law (it primarily consists of user-generated content), the bill as written would prohibit receiving YouTube videos without logging in with an age-verified account. I strongly doubt the bill will go anywhere. [0] https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.120.htm https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.120.htm
LegionMammal978 4y ago
From earlier in that chapter [0]: > (1) "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; or >> (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). > (2) "User" means a person who posts, uploads, transmits, shares, or otherwise publishes or receives content through a social media platform. The term includes a person who has a social media platform account that the social media platform has disabled or locked. [0] https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.120.htm https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.120.htm

daveslash 4y ago

Not to mention, what does it mean to use? Is passively consuming content without contributing or even creating an account using? Because, if so.... this means that YouTube gets turned upside down in this case.

LegionMammal978 4y ago
> Not to mention, what does it mean to use? Presumably, to use a platform is to be a user of that platform, where a user is "a person who posts, uploads, transmits, shares, or otherwise publishes or receives content through a social media platform" [0]. Since YouTube is unambiguously a social media platform by Texas law (it primarily consists of user-generated content), the bill as written would prohibit receiving YouTube videos without logging in with an age-verified account. I strongly doubt the bill will go anywhere. [0] https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.120.htm https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.120.htm

LegionMammal978 4y ago

From earlier in that chapter [0]: > (1) "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; or >> (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). > (2) "User" means a person who posts, uploads, transmits, shares, or otherwise publishes or receives content through a social media platform. The term includes a person who has a social media platform account that the social media platform has disabled or locked. [0] https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.120.htm https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.120.htm