These 'child influencer' laws are bad and dangerous

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Utah just became the latest state to pass a major law claiming to "protect child influencers." The law has been celebrated across the internet. But according to experts, the law won't "protect" child influencers. It is deeply flawed, counterproductive, and dangerously irresponsible. It has major free speech implications and could be used to censor journalistic work and reporting. It took me weeks of reporting to put together this deep dive and to speak to nearly a dozen actual free speech and legal experts about this law, something not a single mainstream media journalist did. I do not make ANY money from these videos, so if you want to support me, please consider buying a yearly subscription to my tech & online culture newsletter: https://www.usermag.co I hope you'll watch this entire video, because I'm extremely worried about the effect laws like these will have on free speech and civil liberties. Again, I don't make a dime from these videos so please support me on https://www.usermag.co 00:00 Intro 03:40 Who the law actually applies to 04:58 How content creator is defined 05:38 Every child online is not a victim 06:13 The law hurts teen influencers 08:49 Undue rights to parents 09:46 Doesn't distinguish between minors 09:59 Ruby Franke 10:30 Parents act as trustees 11:33 Doesn't regulate primary income sources 12:43 Insane government formula 13:20 Chilling effects on journalism 15:42 The most dangerous part of the law 17:52 How the law can be weaponized 19:03 Utah's bad track record 20:40 The efforts to attack 1A 22:56 What we can do to actually protect kids 23:15 Panopticontent 25:52 Social media as a social justice tool 26:26 Changing norms 27:45 The real danger to kids online 29:54 Burden on the user vs company 30:32 People over profit Please buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work: https://www.usermag.co Follow me: https://www.instagram.com/taylorlorenz https://www.instagram.com/taylorlorenz3.0 https://www.tiktok.com/@taylorlorenz #influencer #influencers #technology #tech #techpolicy #internetculture