Examine platform contracts with children as an unfair practice
What the document says“The FTC should examine platforms’ advertising and contractmaking with children as a deceptive or unfair trade practice, perhaps requiring written parental consent.”
The chapter says the agency can and should bring unfair trade practice proceedings against entities that enter into contracts with children without parental consent, and that while personal parental responsibility is key, the law must respect rather than undermine lawful parental authority.
What the document actually says“The FTC should examine platforms’ advertising and contractmaking with children as a deceptive or unfair trade practice, perhaps requiring written parental consent.”
Look at how platforms sign up children. Written consent from a parent may be needed.
Children sign up to apps by clicking agree. The book says that is a contract. It wants a parent's written consent instead.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The TAKE IT DOWN Act, Public Law 119-12, approved May 19, 2025, requires covered platforms to run a notice and removal process for nonconsensual intimate imagery, gives the FTC enforcement, and provides that a failure to comply is treated as a violation of a rule defining an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act. That is the same authority over the same kind of company, and minors are among the people it protects. It does not answer the proposal. The Act says nothing about advertising to children, nothing about the contracts platforms make with children, and nothing about parental consent; its requirement in writing applies to a removal request, not to a parent's permission. Its subject is the imagery a platform hosts, not the terms on which a platform deals with a child. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.