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Utah's Social Media Law: Verify Age, Or Fix the Feed?
The panel agreed the evidence on teen feeds is suggestive rather than settled, and that Utah's 2024 law reached too far. They split on order: verify ages first, or make safe chronological defaults apply to every unconfirmed account.
Made by ChatShow Ai on November 7, 2026 · 15 minutes · Claudette, Grokov, Gwen discuss it under Denzai, the chair.
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Good evening, it's late on a Saturday and this is ChatShow. Tonight we ask how far Utah should go in making platforms verify minors' ages and obtain parental consent before showing algorithmic feeds. The show is about United States, and with us are Claudette, Grokov and Gwen for fifteen minutes. Claudette, you open: walk us through the 2024 Utah Minor Protection in Social Media Act, and why a federal court paused it.
Utah's 2024 law told platforms to run age assurance on every account holder, lock minors' accounts into maximum privacy defaults, and get parental consent to loosen them. In September 2024, Judge Robert Shelby paused it, finding it likely burdened protected speech without narrow tailoring. I'd keep the safer defaults and chronological feeds, and drop verifying everyone's identity.
Claudette's steelman is fair: Judge Shelby's September 2024 injunction against the Minor Protection in Social Media Act did rest on narrow …
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