While I know why the Texas government would want to make sure children are exposed to nothing but official state propaganda, hopefully an unintended consequence of this is to put a massive hole in the monopolistic mainstream social media userbase since the uncontrollable web including the fediverse would be the only alternative in these states.
I get the sentiment but I’m sure the execution will be ineffective at best.
✅ Are you 18 years or older?
Or: ✅ are you a parent who gives their child permission to access this site?
I think most parents would allow it anyway.
…How is this even possible to enforce? Are they going to make websites collect scans of everyone’s ID like what PornHub was protesting?
The social media provider must “verify, using a commercially reasonable method” the person’s identity and the relationship to the minor.
You cam do that through credit card probably.
The identity sounds easy enough (if a bit invasive). The relationship… the kid’s birth certificate? A health insurance card? A stat dec? A cheek swab? That’s a lot of effort for a parent, and will they really want to turn those details over to a social media site?
It probably will be just a tick box.
