{"id":2760,"date":"2023-01-06T02:06:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T02:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2023-01-06T02:06:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T02:06:47","slug":"banning-social-media-for-the-under-18-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/banning-social-media-for-the-under-18-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning Social Media for the Under 18 crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is happening? Bonjour, <a href=\"https:\/\/capitol.texas.gov\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=88R&amp;Bill=HB896\">HB 896 (2023 | TX)<\/a>, that will require social media platforms to verify user ages and prohibit users under the age of 18. &#8220;Social media is the pre-1964 cigarette. Once thought to be perfectly safe for users, social media access to minors has led to remarkable rises in self-harm, suicide, and mental health issues, Patterson said.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/community\/texas-bill-would-ban-social-media-for-everyone-under-18?utm_campaign=Newsletter%20-%20GOV%20-%20Daily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=237800974&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8UpMM43F04Dv5a6s7lzz2XQbtKwJAkCPbzWe5GGAwNbixYD-47ooiNaEYu1l8szA3zUu20aegLchCIKZnpQbcxXNV_RA&amp;utm_content=237800974&amp;utm_source=hs_email\">Governing | Texas Bill Would Ban Social Media for Everyone Under 18<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening? Bonjour, HB 896 (2023 | TX), that will require social media platforms to verify user ages and prohibit users under the age of 18. &#8220;Social media is the pre-1964 cigarette. Once thought to be perfectly safe for users, social media access to minors has led to remarkable rises in self-harm, suicide, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}