Greater than half of voters within the U.S., or 59 %, desire a comparable social media ban to the one handed in Australia final month, which barred kids beneath the age of 16 from utilizing the platforms, a brand new Quinnipiac College ballot discovered.
The legislation in Australia impacts social media platforms equivalent to Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Fb, X and Reddit, however it is not going to be enforced for YouTube.
In line with the ballot, whereas roughly 6 in 10 respondents needed to see an identical ban to the one in Australia, 31 % stated the other.
Most teams supported an identical ban, apart from voters aged 18 to 34, who have been extra divided of their solutions, the survey revealed. Fifty % of voters in that age group supported an identical ban, whereas 46 % stated they didn’t, the ballot discovered.
The polling comes on the heels of a Supreme Court docket announcement saying it could take up whether or not a legislation that might ban TikTok nationwide violates the First Modification.
Within the order issued Wednesday, the courtroom stated it’s going to maintain oral arguments Jan. 10 over the video sharing platform’s request to invalidate the legislation requiring it to divest from its Chinese language father or mother firm or face a ban. The social media platform had filed an emergency software asking the justices to delay their Jan. 19 divest-or-ban deadline earlier this week.
The Quinnipiac College ballot was performed Dec. 12-16 amongst 924 self-identified registered voters nationwide. The margin of error was 3.2 proportion factors.
