“I am talking about content that outright told me what behaviors to use to starve myself," Szew said,"I was ten years old and for the next five years, I put my body through absolute hell in order to get to a place where I was about to die.”
From her Stanford dorm, Szew plans to follow this bill's progress in the legislature, hoping that lawmakers are listening to the experiences of young people like her. “We couldn’t agree more that these issues are incredibly important, our platforms have been working on mitigating the risks to many of these factors included in SB 287 for years," Hoffman said. However, Hoffman believes that this bill is unconstitutional.
"Social media is an unregulated space,” he noted, pointing out that social media is not regulated in the ways that television and radio media are.