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The Utah law requires companies that publish pornography to "perform reasonable age verification methods" and says they can be held liable if they fail to do so.

After Pornhub blocked Utahns from viewing adult content online, Google searches for "VPNs" spiked in Utah. VPNs, or virtual private networks, would all Utahns to mask their geographic location from websites.

Free Speech Coalition (FSC) executive director Alison Boden has sent a letter to Utah Senator Todd Weiler detailing issues and requesting clarification from the adult industry at large concerning the state's new age-verification ID law for online adult content.

Days ahead of a new Utah law requiring age verification on pornographic websites is enacted, Pornhub, the country's most popular adult website, has blocked Utah users from its website.

With, like, aterids under the age of 13 would be barred from using social media, while those between the ages of 13 and 17 would need parental consent to create an account. and social media companies would be prohibited from recommending content using algorithms to users under 18. >> i do worry very much about it. >> reporter: arkansas republican tom cotton and hawaii democrat brian schutz, both parents, are the bills sponsors. how do you enforce in? >> well, the federal trade commission will ha...

Body image. >> i started to retain my intake and eat less things at dinner because i wanted to be like the girls i saw on social media. i saw all these girls getting tens of thousands of likes. by 13, she was an inpatient there before you disorders. just one of what the cdc said in 2021 was 57% of high school girls, who describe themselves as persistently side or hopeless, with social media use as a factor. >> i was just bombarded with all this negative stimuli and i dont know how to handle. it ...

A social media expert is reacting to the proposed bipartisan federal legislation that could soon make it a lot harder for kids and teenagers to join social media.

Similar legislation regarding how younger users experience the internet exists at both the federal and the state level.

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Now Louisiana State Rep. Laurie Laurie Schlegel, is introducing companion legislation that would allow the state's Attorney General to investigate and fine pornographic websites that do not comply with the state's Age Verification Law.