Social media restriction plan for teenagers in New York

according to the report of the International Group Tasnim Khabaragari, the Wall Street Journal reported, quoting informed sources, that New York is considering banning social media companies from using algorithms to control content based on a tentative agreement. for youth, without parental consent.

Eric Adams Mayor New York announced in February that the city filed a lawsuit against social media companies including Meta, Facebook and Instagram, accusing them of creating mental health crises among young people.

According to this report, the purpose of presenting this law is to prevent providing automatic feedback to minors. by social media companies.

The Wall Street Journal added: The bill is still being finalized but is expected to be voted on this week. Accordingly, social media platforms are prohibited from sending messages to minors at night without parental consent.    and its destructive effect on young people have been carefully investigated.

Because children use such networks a lot and may suffer from anger, depression and other mental illnesses .

Meanwhile, critics of this plan They say that this bill violates the protection of freedom of speech in the First Amendment of the US Constitution and parents should decide about their children’s presence on social networks and the government should not do anything about it..

limits and raises security concerns because users’ personal information must be entered to the extent of verified age.

Meta stressed his support for a federal law for online app stores that would require approval from people under the age of 16 to download. have parents.

In this law, no specific social network is mentioned, but it is stated that it means all social networks that provide infinite scrolling and have the possibility of reaction scales such as liking and have automatic playing videos and They also have live streaming and push notifications. But in this law, websites and applications whose main function is based on sending emails, sending messages or texts between a specific sender and receiver are excluded.

In March last year, the state of Utah became the first state in America to pass laws restricting children’s access to social media. . After this state, other states including Arkansas, Louisiana, Ohio and Texas had implemented this law. Many other states are developing similar legislation.

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