Sue Your Parents!

Child influencers are now entitled to a share of video profits and can sue their parents for wage theft in Illinois.


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[MattMcMatt]

Not surprising to me that a 15 year old knows more about the reality of social media exploitation than the people who's job it is to make laws about it. Happy that they listened

[_-_o-o_-_]

Scrapbooking needs to make a comeback. You can record your kids growing up without showing it to world.

[valley]

Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if these “parents” suddenly stopped posting their children in social media once the money goes to the kids and not them…

[Marcos.ribeiro]

In my country there was a story about a child TV star(she started working when she was 4 and now she's 21), long story short, their parents managed her career until recently, she was entitled to only 2% of what she made(at least that was what I understood) and now she's trying to be free from them.

[synthiandrakon]

One thing thats a sticking point for an alarming amount of parents is the idea that children are distinct individuals that should have rights and agency of their own. Its always been scary to me how many parents seem to think they are entitled to control everything their kid thinks feels and does. Sure as parents its right to teach your kids the best you can, but i see it time and time again parents failing to recognise that their child is a seperate person who has a right to turn out differently to what a parent might want and it just destroys the relationship those parents have with their kids come adulthood

[tonycamp]

The solution is not to pay the kids, it's to not monetize the kids.

[KennerMarqueti]

In Brazil there is a scandal going on about a girl that was on TV ever since she was a child, now she works on the biggest TV station in the country, she's maybe 20 now, and her parents controlled all the money. The last straw was she not having money to buy something to eat at the beach.

[OldTechNerd]

re: The email thing. Before there was email I journaled years of everything I did with my kids. This was a loong time ago and as Linus mentioned I let it lapse and it basically faded away. Fast forward 20 years and I gathered all the text and pictures and put together a hard cover book that encompassed my now 30+ year old kids youth. That was their Christmas present. When they saw the wrapping they thought "Oh great, dad got us a book" Then they opened it. Christmas was put on pause for a while. It is now each ones cherished possession. Never too late to start or to pick up where you left off and don't show them a thing until the time is right.

[tafellappen]

I fear any “parent” who cannot distinguish between basic household maintenance and actual child labor

[morells]

It must have been so much more difficult to be a predator/pedophile before the internet

[monkeywithocd]

I appreciate that the rule allows for incidentally including kids in videos, like how Linus has occasionally filmed with his kids or how Youtubers tend to show the occasional baby picture when they have a newborn.

Also, the answer to that whole "keeping a record of the kid's life on Facebook" thing is to *do it offline*. My siblings and I have a "treasure box", one for each of us, that is filled with memories from when we were growing up, and I love going through it. That and the mountains of pictures we have stored around the house. Having those is so wonderful and we don't have to worry about any privacy issues because *we're the only ones with access to them*. Plus it does help that our parents weren't creepy so I don't think they took any naked baby pictures of us.

[gilliesuarez]

Each state makes the child labor laws differently, but in many cases in US states, there are exceptions for family businesses such as minimum age to work there and whether they have to be paid or if it is just part of chores. From a working perspective, many of these kids do significantly less than most kids growing up on farms that make money.

[mario]

Now they need to protect people from being on prank videos, those are annoying as hell.

[tolucafreak]

Great law. Hate these "family" YouTubers who abuse their children for their own profit and only "love" them if they're bringing in views and cash

[krank]

I think the (democratic) state 100% should have a say in how you raise your kids. Parents do not own their children. They're not property, or pets, or slaves. Children are people, and we don't own people. Children have a right to basic human rights. They should have a right to freedom of religion, they should have a right to comprahensiove education and meeting people and kids from other backgrounds. Parents should absolutely not have a right to indoctrinate kids without any possibility of them meeting alternative viewpoints.

And in most civilized countries, children DO have rights. You're not allowed to beat your kids (yes, "spanking" is beating), or deprive them of health care or of an education. And this is a good thing.

[Beeline_N]

That 25% for being in 50% might make sense for cases where the child might not necessarily contribute 50%.

[whoeverofhowevermany]

They are not working just by appearing in a video. Their likeness is being sold before they can legally sign it away. A person's likeness is a valuable asset.

[Respectable_Username]

I'm of the personal opinion that a child _cannot_ consent to having their image put on the public internet before they're 13 years old and therefore it should be _banned_ to post photos of your child on public accounts before that age (not including private areas that are restricted to known family and friends like a group chat or a private Instagram account). If a kid cannot consent to signing up to an account before 13 on their own behalf, as is currently the law, then logically they cannot consent to having any part of their likeness on the public internet

[timtim]

I mean, if I can pay my child instead of paying taxes, I’d prefer to my child.

[plankera]

So the parents vlog their child so they have a catalogue of what they’ve done, what happens if the site gets shut down? How will you access that content?