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Utah Passes Laws Requiring Parental Permission For Teens To Use Social Media

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• In Utah

  In Utah...

  Teenage boys and girls who are at least 16 years old, but are not yet 18 years old can get married in Utah with the consent of their parents or guardians.

  Teens who are at least 15 years old can marry with court approval. The 15 year old must, with his or her parent, petition the juvenile court or court commissioner for permission to marry.

  Utah permits first cousins to marry as long as both parties are at least 65 years old, or both parties are at least 55 years old and the local district court has

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    After the recent Supreme Court decision, there will be more underage mothers.

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      Something something, poophole loophole.

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    How about 10 year olds getting married in Tennessee? And no 10 isn’t a typo. https://www.independent.co.uk/... [independent.co.uk]

    Yeah, about those “groomers” I keep hearing about.

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  Scan of driver license or government ID would do just fine. People prefer to look at porn anonymously, but with social media they already have to give phone numbers in many cases. It can work if the social media companies want to. The problem is that they don't want to because many of their platforms are optimized for teen addiction.

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    It's been awhile, but I'm pretty sure you can still make a Twitter/Facebook/YouTube account without a phone number. And if you really need a throwaway phone number, there's presently quite a few free eSim trial apps around these days for newer eSim supported phones. I recently used that trick to get around ChatGPT's phone number requirement.

• Apply KYC to these cases

  Scan of their driver's license?

  That's exactly what Coinbase, Crypto.com, Gemini, Kraken and other US crypto exchanges do, and their processes tend to be pretty fast at validating. They tend to require a front and back scan of the license along with a selfie. That's it.

  Like it or not, the crypto industry solved this problem with a much smaller moderation pool for validating users than Meta can bring to bear on the problem through their massive number of moderators.

  Set aside the question of whether it or not

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    Regardless of the fact that this method is only mildly secure and trustworthy at best, this still only helps proves one person is an adult, and not necessarily the parent/guardian of another. So, it doesn't solve anything, because it can be bypassed easily. Coinbase and anything related to any kind of crypto aren't relevant at all.

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    I seem to recall that being the point where I was like "fuck it, I'm out" regarding toying around with (very) small amounts of cryptocurrencies. Exchanges collectively aren't known for their stellar security record and they don't need a copy of my driver's license.

    Same deal with Facebook, Twitter, et al. Your shit is barely worth using as it is because of all the data mining. If I have to trust your marketing department with my ID too, I'm gone.

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  They basically present a box that you click that says "Do you live in Utah?" If you click it, you cannot use the social media website. The end. The entire state of Utah barely inches over a single percent of the US total population and the under 18 population is way less. None of these social media sites stand to lose any significant sum of money by just not doing business in the State, especially Utah.

  Now that doesn't mean that's the cure. These site will need to get off their asses and figure things

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  They'll have to show proof of being vaccinated. Feel better, now?