KUAR | By Josie Lenora
A bill pushed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to regulate children on social media passed an Arkansas legislative committee Tuesday.
The Social Media Safety Act would require Arkansans to show a photo ID before setting up a new account. If the bill becomes law, minors would also need express consent from their parents to set up a social media account.
Republican Sen. Tyler Dees explained it like this. “The process would be a third-party verifier that the social media site would contract with. They would verify the age and then they would dump that data. At that point, they would be able to give consent for a new profile to be created.”
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A bill to regulate when children can set up social media accounts made it out of a Senate committee Tuesday.