Utah became the first state Thursday to sign into law legislation that attempts to limit teenagers’ access to social media sites.
signed a pair of measures that aim to limit when and where children can use social media and stop companies from luring kids to the sites.The laws requires companies to give parents access to their children’s accounts, puts a curfew on social media use from 10:30 p.m. to 6:30 a,m. as well as age verification for all Utah residents who want to use social media.
“We remain very optimistic that we will be able to pass not just here in the state of Utah but across the country legislation that significantly changes the relationship of our children with these very destructive social media apps,” he said.
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