Technology
Apr. 15, 2022
Social media companies must help parents do their jobs
In “tea rooms” or “shade rooms,” teens regularly post disparaging comments and photos of their peers and engage in online bullying with almost complete anonymity; the platforms are a breeding ground for sexual predators, weight shaming, and oversexualized content.
Christa H. Ramey
Of Counsel
Abir, Cohen, Treyzon & Salo LLP
Email: christa@rameylawpc.com
Southwestern Univ SOL; Los Angeles CA
On March 29, attorneys general from 43 states and territories sent a letter to Snapchat and TikTok asking the social media companies to do more to protect children from the damaging effects of content posted on their platforms. Specifically, the companies were urged to integrate parental control applications into their systems or allow parents to exert control within their platforms.
According to the letter, other platforms allow such paren...
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