2025 will welcome several new laws to California with social media being the center focus of a number of them.
SAN DIEGO — Social media has connected people throughout the world with its power to share videos and images immediately. But there’s also a dark side to social media and lawmakers want to do something about it.
Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1880, which his office said its an expansion to the Coogan law. The bill aims to protect these individuals and make sure they have at least 15 percent of their gross earnings into a trust. The bill defines a content creator as someone who creates, posts, shares or interacts with digital content on an online platform.
“At the end of the day if the kid is the one that’s making the money they’re entitled to it,” Landon Li said.
Meanwhile, the Governor also signed Senate Bill 764 which gives minors included in monetized online content and are under the age of 18, the ability to get a percentage of their earnings in a trust account.
“It’s really nice to have that protection and I mean its good that its in a trust fund and not for those kids just to go out and use cause like what are they going to do with all that money they … they’re still too young,” Katherine Kazulina said.
Senate Bill 1283 gives authority to the governing board of a school district, county board of education or the governing body of a charter school to limit or prohibit students use of social media on campus.
“Social media was really good in publicizing events for my school and getting a lot of people to participate in things but then again there is the down side to it were there’s online bullying and people are just addicted to their phones these days,” Annie Brull said.
To learn more about other laws going into effect in California visit gov.ca.gov
