A controversial and chat account on social networks was rejected by the state congress of the California. If approved, the proposal would have allowed parents to sue social media platforms if their children developed an internet addiction.
The Social Media Platform Duty to Children Act he ran aground on the committee and didn’t get the votes needed to be discussed in the Senate Chamber. Parents could have sued social networks for civil damages in all cases where their children were found to have developed an addiction precisely because of features or elements specifically designed to encourage users to spend more time on the applications.
The measure would have been applied only to companies with a turnover of more than $100 million, or companies that develop or distribute video games.
The initiators of the proposal expressed their frustration after its rejection. “With the repeal of this law,” said Senator Jordan Cunningham, “a handful of major Internet companies will continue to subject millions of California children to their experiments, endangering their well-being.”
Opponents of the proposal argued that such a law would oblige social networks to divide their users among children, adolescents and adults, with the result that the provision of proof of identity at registration would become mandatory, with serious privacy risks.
Source: Lega Nerd
