Judge blocks Arkansas law requiring parental OK for minors to create social media accounts

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[–]SoCo[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Social Media cartel really took complete control of this court hearing, twisted the law into a different European law, something it wasn't, then beat that European law up. They totally took over the room and dictated what the law they were opposing was. Then they pretended they didn't know who was included in the law...but the law includes all except exempt. Ultimately, the judge was lulled into the position of thinking that the terms "majority" and "substantial amount" were too vague and needed defined...

What happened here, was the cartel and just discussed what this law "really" meant to do, then ruled on that, rather on the law. The law was shit, though, but that is besides the point.

We are seeing how illogical arguments seem to drive every large court case anymore...

Here is the ruling: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.arwd.68680/gov.uscourts.arwd.68680.44.0.pdf

[–]IkeConn 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Kids get to lie about their age and see porn and tranny shit.

[–]SoCo[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The weird stuff that comes out of the cracks when the spying, abuse, manipulation, and control of the largest and most powerful companies get threatened...

Back when this law was pass, it seems everyone had a weird take on it. The Electronic Frontier Foundation opposed it for free speech and privacy data collection concerns.

Then, James Pearson Steyer, the guy who wrote the book

The Other Parent: The Inside Story of the Media’s Effect on Our Children. {--1--}

And who is also the founder of, Common Sense Media, an organization that "provides education and advocacy to families to promote safe technology and media for children."

According to this AP article, they hailed the effort to rein in social media’s addictive features and set rules for litigation....

..but Steyer said giving parents access to children’s social media posts would

deprive kids of the online privacy protections we advocate for.

I'm not sure they gave all the context, but it seems an odd position to take.... children need privacy from parents, while engaging in possibly risky situations?

[–]Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

One can hope the parants say fuck the idiot and monitor there rug rats.