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Most of them are already 13+, so really this is only extending that by 1 year. It's performative. Also he's going to make everyone under 14 want to create accounts now just in hopes that the company doesn't delete it and they can sue for their $10k.
I wonder what qualifies as 'social media'. Is a Steam account 'social media'? Its social features tick most of the boxes.
I linked to the text in a top-level comment.
I think that Criterion 2 is going to limit the practical impact of the law. The burden of the proof will be on the plaintiff, so they're going to have to prove what a percentage of the userbase under a certain age is doing, and I don't see as how even the social media company is going to know with great certainty what the age of its userbase is, much less a plaintiff.
Does this mean that Lemmy is not social media because it's not ranking content with an algorithm?
I guess it depends on the definition of algorithm is as just sorting by newest is a type of algorithm.
So nearly everything. Got it.
Is Roblox social media? Or Scratch?
Oh man I had forgotten about scratch. So much time spent there in middle school and high school classes. Still kinda surprised I wasn't a CS major.
FL: the new world of the subversive state. That’s what he’s creating.