Arkansas governor signs sweeping bill imposing a minimum age limit for social media usage | CNN Business

But even as Sanders signed the bill into law on Wednesday afternoon, the legislation appeared to contain vast loopholes and exemptions benefiting companies that lobbied on the bill and raising questions about how much of the industry it truly covers. The legislation, known as the Social Media Safety Act and taking effect in September, is aimed at giving parents more control over their kids’ social media usage, according to lawmakers.

Tyler Dees, a lead co-sponsor of the legislation, explained in remarks on the Arkansas senate floor on April 6 that the exemptions and tweaks to the bill, some of which he said were made in consultation with Apple, Meta and Google, were intended to shield non-social media services from the bill’s age requirements and to focus attention on new accounts created by children, not existing adult accounts. “There’s other services that Google offers … like cloud storage, et cetera,” Dees said.

Social media must be controlled because they are spreading too much untrue information!

Parents have control. Legislation takes it away.

Parents are no longer going to be able to have social media babysit and 'educate' their kids. This would make people like Jeffery Marsh big mad, because his target audience is kids who lack parental supervision.

Maybe they'll stop you from pushing your FakeNews! That would benefit ALL Americans

What exactly is stopping the parents now from having control?

Arkansas lawmakers have obviously never heard of of VPN

Considering how ignorant adults act on Twitter, states may want to make a law to limit their access as well. JustSaying

Here’s an idea, don’t let your kids on social media. Be a parent and parent. You can setup your kids phones so they can’t sign up for social media.

Why would parents who control everything in their kids life need such a law? What about bath night. What if the kid won't take a bath or brush their teeth? Are you going to leave parents hanging out to dry on those?

But they can become whatever sex they want or have abortions without parents knowing I am not saying one is right and one is wrong - I am saying the inconsistency is absurd

Whatever happened to 'personal responsibility' ?

actually it’s the get rid of free speech act lol

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