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Texas House passes bill that bans people under 18 from using social media
The bill's author, State Rep. Jared Patterson, called social media "the most dangerous legal thing minors can access."
Social media companies can use a commercially reasonable method that relies on public or private transactional data to verify age, so potentially uploading a photo ID. State Rep. Gene Wu (D-Houston) said he fears it would lead to people pulling back on political speech, given past data breaches at Facebook and Bank of America, they won’t want to give a social media platform that much. “I will say there was nothing stopping a parent from creating a social media page and highlighting their child's activities in hopes of obtaining a basketball team slot, or a college scholarship, or anything in between,” Patterson said.
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