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In April, Tennessee passed Senate Bill 1469. The bill prohibits children under 14 from appearing in monetised online videos, and requires that a portion of earnings from content featuring older minors be held in trust until they turn 18. It is one of the most substantive pieces of child-focused digital legislation we have seen – and it asks a question that is long overdue: when does a child’s presence in content become something they deserve protection from?
The digital economy has created entirely new forms of participation for children that our existing frameworks were never designed to address. A child appearing in a third of a family’s
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