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A bill just passed in the state of Utah where I live banning children from social media unless they have their parents permission under 18 years of age. In add
by djha-skin 4y ago
A bill just passed in the state of Utah where I live banning children from social media unless they have their parents permission under 18 years of age.
In addition, the parents must be provided with access to all of the children's messages and posts.
This now means that Facebook has to implement some sort of "are you 18" thing. Don't know how they'll implement that, reminds me of a recent law around porn in Alabama. Requiring a driver's license or some such.
It also means Facebook has to implement a back door of sorts for parents to watch their children. As of the parent of a girl who will soon reach social media age, this seems a bit much to me.
But the technical side of my brain screams, how on Earth are they going to implement this and keep spammers from abusing it.
It changes so many things. Child predators pretending to be 14. Indeed, any kind of anonymity has been largely banned because I have to know how old you are to let you on my site.
And it's not just Facebook it's any sort of social media, including our host.
- walrus01 4y agoThe Utah law is a back-door to Christian/Mormon fundamentalists who want to enforce religious doctrine and parental control over teenagers who are attempting to establish their own identities. This will be disastrous for any teenager in Utah who doesn't meet the local-region-socially-acceptable stereotype of a normal person, such as LGBTQ. All that I can see is even more ex-Mormon teenagers who cut off their parents they day they turn 18 and move to a city somewhere far away from Utah, at the earliest possible financially feasible moment.
- kerpotgh 4y ago[dead]
- jutrewag 4y agoGood. You can establish your own “identity” when you’re an adult at 18. I don’t have a religious bone in my body but I wish this law was made effective nationwide.
- walrus01 4y agoThankfully, America is not yet operating in the political reality of The Handmaid's Tale, much as you might wish it to be so.
- jutrewag 4y agoI feel like that’s a hyperbolic take. Outside forces injecting chaos into the internal workings of a family are about as bad as things can get for a growing child. What’s the problem with deferring sexual issues to adulthood when you’re more mature?
- worklaptopacct 4y agoWhat makes you think that a marriage between two people gives them absolute knowledge how to raise a child in an optimal way?
- jutrewag 4y ago[dead]
- jutrewag 4y agoThat’s part of the deal isn’t it. The government can’t decide and mandate what the optimal way to raise a child is outside of certain aspects like schooling, corporal punishment, age of consent etc.
- worklaptopacct 4y agoWhat makes schooling, corporal punishment, age of consent, and - as discussed here - control over online communication acceptable government interventions into an otherwise wise, benevolent and self-sufficient family?
- mock-possum 4y agoThe problem is that those sexual issues arise for the individual almost as soon as they begin to experience puberty. You can’t make teens to ignore their sexuality for 6+ years. It simply will not work, it never has, it never will.