State Representative David Steffen (R-Green Bay) has introduced Assembly Bill 373, which would set requirements that social media companies must follow when it comes to accounts held by minors.
This would include:
- Ensuring that all social media accounts created on or after January 1, 2019 are designated as youth accounts (unless the company determines that the account holder is not a minor)
- Prohibiting direct messaging between a youth account and any other account that is not linked to the youth account through "friending" or another process where two people add each other as contacts
- Refraining from showing youth accounts in search results
- Preventing advertising from being shown to youth accounts
- Refraining from using or collecting personal information from a youth account
- Refraining from the use of targeted or suggested groups, accounts, users, services, posts and products
- Ensuring that youth accounts cannot be accessed between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.
- Providing information to a parent or guardian of the youth account so they can access the account. Parents could opt their child out of the youth account designation.
