Gov. Spencer Cox passed a pair of bills on Thursday that will regulate and limit teenage and child access to social media. One bill, SB152, will require age verification, restrict teenage access during late-night hours, ensure parental access to a child's account, and limit the information collected by apps. The other, HB311, will ban users from incorporating features that could cause a teenager to become addicted.
The bills threaten Utahans' First Amendment rights, Bembridge said, by requiring users to submit records of their age and birth relationship before being allowed to post freely on a social network. NetChoice is a conservative tech advocacy group that regularly advocates tech companies on the state and federal levels."Young people have First Amendment rights," said Jason Kelley, associate director of digital strategy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
There are also a number of uncertainties around how the law will handle data collection, according to Cato Institute research fellow Jennifer Huddleston.
GovCox All I read was “Utah teenagers now smartest teenagers in the United States.”