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An account that passes through Texas legislative power He would forbid minors to approach popular applications and websites on social networks in an effort to suppress what the MP is saying is an addiction and a “harmful product”.
The measure of the Republican State Jared Patterson, House Bill 186, adopted a house in Texas last month last month with two -sided support and it seems that he is ready to push him by the state Senate on the way to the table of Greg Abbott.
In an interview with Fox News Digital on Monday, Patterson said that the bill had come by talking with several committees and with parents who have Young children about the effect of popular websites of social media such as X, Tictok, Facebook and Snapchat have children.
These committees and conversations have been followed by the last two temporary in the state legislative body who have studied the issue of social media and minors.
“Finding out more about this, we really realized that this is the most serious product our children have access to in terms of his addiction,” Patterson said.
Texas Ambassador Jared Patterson, R-Frisco, is the author of Bill 186, who would forbid from minors under the age of 18 years of social media platforms. (Rep. Jared Patterson)
Bill 186 would forbid minors to apply for social media accounts, require parental consent to download applications and set up stickers of warning on the danger of social media.
Websites that allow users to create content and share it will be considered to be a social media platform and thus prohibit minors.
However, websites containing news and sports will be available to minors.
Although Texas is not the first country to set up some restrictions on access to juveniles of social media platforms, that would be the strictest at the moment.
Since June 2024, there are 10 countries that have the Laws on Age Restriction on Social Media for Minors, according to Age Verification Services Association.
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Texas Bill 186 would ban minors to apply for social media accounts. (Getty Images)
Currently, only Florida has laws forbidding to minors the use of social media, but its laws are not as strict as the proposed Texas Bill 186.
Florida limit He is currently 14 years old, while Texas’s proposed limit would be for those under the age of 18.
However, Patterson said the limit of age was not placed in stone.
“We’ll see what’s going on with Senate. When [the bill] They left the house, people under the age of 18 will be forbidden by social media. There was a wide double -sided support when the account left the Texas house, “Patterson said.”[The Senate has] Every right to adapt it to what it takes to get out of that body. “
Bill 186 would forbid minors to apply for social media accounts, require parental consent to download applications and set up stickers of warning on the danger of social media. (East)
No matter what changes are, Patterson said that he still felt strong that the protection of children was a priority number 1 and that parents would understand exactly what exactly happens.
“It starts with the understanding that these parents do not represent a chance against these algorithms,” he said. “It also begins with their parents to understand that these applications are not for friends who share information with friends; they are built to collect data and collect people into their products.”
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Patterson said Texas will still “stand in the void and protect those children, even when these Companies on social media Decline to appear.
“They refuse to respond to the damage they have done, and they do not even care about questions in the public forum about what they have done to our children.”
