This new 'child influencer' law is bad and dangerous

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.

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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

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