Utahns weigh in on new social media parental consent provision

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Utahns weigh in on new social media parental consent provision
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Earlier this year, legislators made Utah the first state in the nation to impose rules requiring children under 18 to obtain parental permission before signing up on social media platforms.

also include setting time constraints on when minors can access social media sites, instituting an age verification requirement for social media sign-ups and stipulating that site operators must provide parents with access to their children's content and the ability to track activity on the sites.

When parsed by political party affiliation, Republican respondents were somewhat more supportive of the parent permission measure, with 82% weighing in as supportive, versus 71% of Democrats who said they were somewhat or strongly in favor. "Will this really be creating responsible teenagers and adults if the government is just taking over and not letting us choose for ourselves?" Loewen asked the committee. "We want to stop government intervention, so why would we let the government control our lives?"

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