Alaska House Passes Bill Banning Social Media Access for Kids

If the bill is signed into law, children under 14 will be banned from social media and age verification will be required to access pornographic websites.

Rep. Andrew Gray said that children under the age of 14 would not be allowed to have social media accounts. Fiordaliso/Getty Images

Lawmakers in the Alaska House have passed a bill that requires age verification to access pornography websites and bans social media accounts for children under 14.

The bill—HB 254, an Act Relating to Liability for Publishing or Distributing Pornography to Minors—passed on April 26 with strong bipartisan support by a vote of 33–6. Republican state Rep. Sarah Vance introduced the legislation to address the problem of how easily children can access pornography on the internet.