Virginia Enacts Stupid, Completely Unworkable ‘Social Media Time Limit’ Law (www.techdirt.com)

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So this bit here:

Populate a public list of other users with whom such user shares a social connection within such service or application

seems like the easiest way to circumvent this law, with the least effort. Just hide connections for users in VA, and now you're not a social media site. You could even give them their own domain like facebookva.com that only they route through, in case the VA govt try to claim all users on the site have to work the same way. Tie them up for years.

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