Get ready for the Eraser Button

[Liar]

Because this will totally work.

Teens Get Online 'Eraser Button' With New California Law

California teens get an online "eraser button" under a law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday.

The law makes California the first state to require websites to allow people younger than 18 to remove their own postings on that website, and to clearly inform minors how to do so.

"Kids and teens frequently self-reveal before they self-reflect," Jim Steyer, CEO of Common Sense Media, told The Huffington Post. "In today's digital age, mistakes can stay with and haunt kids for their entire life. This bill is a big step forward for privacy rights, especially since California has more tech companies than any other state."

The law is meant to help protect teens from bullying, embarrassment and harm to job and college applications from online posts they later regret. In a 2011 Kaplan survey of college admissions counselors, nearly a quarter said they checked out applicants' social networking. Of those counselors, 12 percent said what they found -- including included vulgarities, alcohol consumption and “illegal activities” -- negatively affected applicants' admissions chances.

Major social media sites -- Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Vine -- already allow users of any age to delete their posts, including photos and comments. California's "eraser button" law will require this policy for all websites with users in the state.

The new law also prohibits youth-oriented websites or those that know they have users who are minors from advertising products that are illegal to underagers, such as guns, alcohol and tobacco. Websites will not be required to delete re-postings by a third party of the minor's original post.

Opponents of the law said it will burden websites with developing policies for different states. Proponents said they hope the law spreads.

The law, SB568, was authored by state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento).

"This is a good business practice that should filter through the industry," Rhys Williams, Steinberg's press secretary, told HuffPost. "These companies are keen to avoid bad press just as parents are keen to avoid bad attention toward their children."

In 2011, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) introduced a similar bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, called the Do Not Track Kids Act. It died in committee.

The new California law -- supported by Common Sense Media, Children NOW, Crime Victims United, the Child Abuse Prevention Center and the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence -- goes into effect Jan. 1, 2015.

Bolded for comedy. That means, all sites. I didn't know they could make rules for sites outside of the state (or even country?), but apparently they think they can.

Will Lit need an Eraser Button, or does it suffice to say "No Minors Allowed, go away kiddo"?

If we do need one, what should it look like? I vote for a nipple.

 

[Recidiva]

Because this will totally work.


Bolded for comedy. That means, all sites. I didn't know they could make rules for sites outside of the state (or even country?), but apparently they think they can.

Will Lit need an Eraser Button, or does it suffice to say "No Minors Allowed, go away kiddo"?

If we do need one, what should it look like? I vote for a nipple.

Huh. Interesting. Well, it sounds crazy, but let's see how it works.

My assumption is that the "identity proof" will be so porous that people will now start erasing the histories of all their perceived arch-enemies instead of bullying them.

Somebody's going to wake up and find they don't exist any more and that the dude with the locker next to theirs just erased all their heartfelt essays and all their contacts are gone.

Identity theft will get a new meaning. It will be identity erasure.

 

[Recidiva]

I vote a penis peeing out a letter in the snow.

 

[Liar]

Huh. Interesting. Well, it sounds crazy, but let's see how it works.

My assumption is that the "identity proof" will be so porous that people will now start erasing the histories of all their perceived arch-enemies instead of bullying them.

Somebody's going to wake up and find they don't exist any more and that the dude with the locker next to theirs just erased all their heartfelt essays and all their contacts are gone.

Identity theft will get a new meaning. It will be identity erasure.

Nah. Most sites have erase thingys already, like the article says. If that was a thing, it woulda happened already.

 

[Recidiva]

Nah. Most sites have erase thingys already, like the article says. If that was a thing, it woulda happened already.

It has happened again. Do you know how many Warcraft players have an ugly breakup and then come on to find their bitch of a girlfriend just wiped out their whole cadre of uberness because they shared a password and didn't think fast enough or at all to change it?

 

[islandman]

Adults could use such a button too.

 

[SigmundFraud]

The law is not enforceable. A state cannot pass laws to regulate other states which is exactly what they did here. If I run a website out of Florida California law cannot make me do shit. That law is unenforceable.

 

[Recidiva]

The law is not enforceable. A state cannot pass laws to regulate other states which is exactly what they did here. If I run a website out of Florida California law cannot make me do shit. That law is unenforceable.

I'd be interested to see what comes of it. It's an actual problem and this might get some action on the subject.

I do think people should be able to have ownership of their own content and be able to at least remove their content.

The problem is that it's been propagated throughout the internet and does it apply to removing your content contributions from where someone quoted it?