Texas is getting ready to ban social media for anyone under 18

Texas can become the next US state to put the law with social media platforms. Texas Bill, who banned the use of social media for anyone under the age of 18, has been released from the Senate Committee and voting in front of the Senate of Texas. Until the legislative session of the bill ended on June 2, he expires on June 2, for about a week, the Senate and the Governor must be approved for this.

Earlier this year, the bill took the stage of the House Committee, and then voted in favor of the Chamber of Representatives. If the law becomes the law, the bill will force social media platforms to check everyone’s age for everyone, as the same as Texas He passed through the legislation Requires porn hosting websites to implement a wet check system. On top of that, Texas’ social media ban offers to allow parents to delete a social media account, to allow the platforms to fulfill 10 days of student appropriate or fines.

Texas is not the only management body that is interested in restricting access to social media. Last year, the Governor of Florida, Ron Desantis, He signed the law Anyone under 14 years of age is banned by a law to gain parental consent to use social media and receive parental consent of children or use an existing account. It should be noted that Texas’s proposed law is harder than that.

On a wider scale, the US Senate, in April 2024, presented a bill to ban social media platforms for anyone under 13. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Texas) (R-Texas) after staying on the committee scene Recently made comments This signaled to accept the second attempt.