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How to Legislate for Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
There's an existing law on the books that implicitly establishes 13 as the minimum age to use social media. The original draft of COPA had this age at 16, but it got changed because of intense lobbying from the tech industry. If you want to do something legislatively here, take the law that already exists and go back to the original age. It's 16, not 13. We don't have to invent new mechanisms. These parents need support.