New Arkansas bill to keep minors off social media exempts most social media platforms
ByThe new bill signed in by Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to come into effect in September later this year.Arkansas is now the second US state to impose minimum age restrictions on social media, with Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signing in a new bill on Wednesday that requires parents and guardians to consent to people under 18 opening a new account. The newly approved
The bill is so specific on what it considers to be a social media company that it might only be applicable to Facebook, Instagram, and Twitterwrites One amendment excludes any “social media company that allows a user to generate short video clips of dancing, voice overs, or other acts of entertainment,” which services like Snapchat and TikTok would likely fall under. Another exempts businesses that offer cloud storage services and make less than 25 percent of their revenue from operating a social media platform, creating some confusion about whether YouTube would be affected, thanks to the rest of Google’s business portfolio.
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