Social media platforms: child influencers.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill does not explicitly mention a direct lawsuit against vloggers by child influencers, only an unspecified civil action.

Social Media Rules for Child Influencers

This law requires social media platforms to provide a clear way for former child influencers to request their parents or guardians to remove or edit content featuring them as minors and made for money when the influencer turns 18.

What This Bill Does

• Requires social media companies to have a clear mechanism by which former child influencers can ask their parents, legal guardians, or family members to delete or edit old posts featuring them as minors after they turn 18.
• Defines 'vlogger' as someone who is a parent, legal guardian, or family member of a child influencer and shares at least 30% of their social media content featuring the child influencer for money.

Who It Names or Affects

• Social media companies
• Child influencers who were featured in posts made by parents, guardians, or family members when they were minors
• Parents, legal guardians, or family members who post content about child influencers for money

Terms To Know

Vlogger

A parent, legal guardian, or family member of a child influencer who shares images or video content featuring the child influencer constituting at least 30% of their social media content and receives compensation for it.

Child influencer

A young person whose parents, legal guardians, or family members post content about them to earn money.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens if the parent, guardian, or family member refuses to comply with a request.
• It is unclear how social media companies will enforce these rules.
• There are no details on penalties for violating this law.

Official Summary Text

SB 1247, as amended, Padilla.
Social media platforms: child influencers.
Existing law generally provides for the protection of minors on the internet, including by imposing certain requirements on an operator of an internet website, online service, online application, or mobile application if it is directed to minors or the operator has actual knowledge that a minor is using it. Among those provisions, existing law requires the operator to permit a minor who is a registered user to remove content or information that the user posted on the operator’s internet website, online service, online application, or mobile application, as specified.
This bill would require a social media platform to provide a
clear and conspicuous
mechanism by which a child
influencer can, after reaching 18 years of age, request their parent, legal guardian, or family member to edit or delete content that features the child influencer as a minor and for which the
parent, legal guardian, or family member received compensation for sharing on the platform, as specified.
influencer, as defined, can request a vlogger, either directly or through a specified notice process, to delete or edit certain paid content that features the child influencer as a minor, as prescribed.
The bill would require the
parent, legal guardian, or family member
vlogger
to delete or edit the content so that the child influencer is no longer featured within 10 business days of receiving the
notification of the
request.
The bill
would define “vlogger” to mean a person who is a parent, legal guardian, or family member of a child influencer who shared images or video content featuring that child influencer constituting at least 30% of the person’s content shared on social media platforms and who received compensation for sharing that content featuring the child influencer.
The bill would authorize a child influencer to bring a specified civil action against a
parent, legal guardian, or family member
vlogger
who violates the bill.

Current Bill Text

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