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Originally Posted by MidWestIA
how will they enforce that??
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The bill doesn't prohibit children from accessing social media, the bill prohibits social media from establishing accounts for children. The onus is on the social media site to verify the age of the account holder and disallow accounts from those under a certain age.
I believe the bill says the personal identification information that is used for verification cannot be retained by the social media site. To me, this means there will be no proof that verification was performed.
Social media sites cannot ask for verification from just those under 18; how would they know? They must ask for verification from everyone. This means you and I will need to provide personal information to X, FB, ToTV, and others in order to keep our accounts.
One possible approach (taken by some porn sites in other states) is to block access for the entire state. Those with VPNs may be able to get around this though even then their experience will be be lessened since the site won't know where you actually are.
Enforcement: The Department of Legal Affairs is authorized to adopt rules to bring action for violations of the new statutes. It seems to be unclear how it will be enforced.