Texas bans kids from social media without parental consent

withersailor@aussie.zone to World News@beehaw.org – 17 points –
Texas bans kids from social media without parental consent
theverge.com
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...How is this even possible to enforce? Are they going to make websites collect scans of everyone's ID like what PornHub was protesting?

The social media provider must "verify, using a commercially reasonable method" the person's identity and the relationship to the minor.

You cam do that through credit card probably.

The identity sounds easy enough (if a bit invasive). The relationship... the kid's birth certificate? A health insurance card? A stat dec? A cheek swab? That's a lot of effort for a parent, and will they really want to turn those details over to a social media site?

It probably will be just a tick box.