The Minnesota House passed a bill Tuesday placing restrictions on social media accounts for children 15 and younger, WCCO-TV reported. Some of the safety features in the bill include requiring parental consent for children signing up for social media accounts; setting privacy settings to the strongest levels by default; prohibiting targeted ads; and limiting addictive features such as infinite scrolling and video autoplay.
“This bill is going to do a lot to protect our kids, and there’s a lot more going forward that we can do,” Rep. Peggy Scott, R-Andover, said. In a letter to a House committee, NetChoice, a group representing tech companies like Meta and Google, argued that Minnesota’s bill puts “minors’ sensitive data at risk,” and infringes on the First Amendment rights of users as well as the social media platforms themselves.
