【文章标题】：EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California’s AB 1709
【文章标题】：电子前哨基金会致纽森州长：请否决加州AB 1709法案
【文章正文】：
The California legislature passed Assembly Bill 1709 (A.B. 1709) today, which functions as a sweeping ban on social media use for young people under the age of 16.
加州议会今日通过了第1709号议会法案（AB 1709），该法案实质上全面禁止16岁以下青少年使用社交媒体。
This well-intentioned, but deeply flawed piece of legislation, cuts young people off from essential information and experiences, particularly harming vulnerable youth and marginalized groups who often find safety in supportive online communities they can’t access offline.
这项初衷良好但存在严重缺陷的法案，切断了青少年获取关键信息与体验的渠道，尤其伤害了弱势青少年和边缘群体——他们往往在无法触及的线下世界之外，于支持性网络社区中获得安全感。
That’s why we’re urging Governor Gavin Newsom to veto the measure.
因此我们敦促加文·纽森州长否决该法案。
Should the law go into effect in January, platforms would be prohibited from offering virtually every functional recommendation algorithm and basic input, such as who a user follows or what posts they like, to anyone under 16.
若该法案于明年1月生效，平台将被禁止向16岁以下用户提供几乎所有功能性的推荐算法和基础交互（如用户关注对象或点赞内容）。
These so-called “addictive features,” are in reality the basic tools that online services use to identify what other user-generated content a particular user might want to see.
这些被冠以”成瘾性功能”之名的工具，实则是网络服务用来识别用户可能想看哪些其他用户生成内容的基础技术。
Users also rely on these features to find audiences for their own speech, as well as community.
用户同样依赖这些功能为自己的发声寻找受众，并建立社群联系。
By labeling these basic tools as “addictive,” the bill relies on sweeping generalizations regarding the unsettled science of youth social media use.
法案通过给基础工具贴上”成瘾性”标签，其依据是对青少年社交媒体使用这一尚未明确科学结论领域的笼统概括。
Because nearly every major service relies on automated feeds, the ultimate result is that young people under 16 will still be locked out of major digital services as they currently exist.
由于几乎所有主流服务都依赖自动化信息流，最终结果将是16岁以下青少年仍将被挡在现有主流数字服务的大门之外。
A.B. 1709 is a massive privacy and free speech nightmare.
AB 1709法案是隐私与言论自由的巨大噩梦。
Denying young people access to digital forums (or stripping out the basic tools needed to navigate them) does nothing to make young people safer or healthier.
剥夺青少年使用数字论坛的权利（或移除必要的操作工具）无助于保障其安全健康。
Research shows that social media bans are ineffectual, and can be harmful when they deny young people opportunities to develop their own voices and perspectives, whether that means sharing art, practicing religion, or engaging in politics.
研究表明社交媒体禁令不仅无效，当它剥夺青少年发展个人观点与表达的机会时（无论是分享艺术、践行信仰还是参与政治），反而会造成伤害。
Far from protecting children, the bill will also severely restrict access to constitutionally protected speech and push platforms to implement invasive age-verification methods, such as requiring government IDs or biometric scanning.
该法案非但无法保护儿童，还将严重限制宪法保护的言论自由，并迫使平台采用侵入式年龄验证手段（如要求政府身份证件或生物识别扫描）。
Age-gating requirements will force everyone to give big tech companies even more personal information.
年龄门槛要求将迫使所有人向科技巨头交出更多个人信息。
To verify who can pass through online gates, companies will collect even more data, concentrating power in corporate hands rather than protecting users.
为验证用户能否通过网络关卡，企业将收集更多数据，这只会将权力集中在企业而非保护用户。
This creates massive honeypots of sensitive personal data, severely damages online anonymity, and exposes users of all ages to heightened data breach risks.
此举将制造海量敏感个人数据的蜜罐，严重破坏网络匿名性，使所有年龄段用户面临更高的数据泄露风险。
Finally, A.B. 1709 introduces legal confusion by creating provisions that conflict with already enacted legislation like A.B. 1043 and S.B. 976.
最后，AB 1709因条款与已颁布的AB 1043和SB 976等法案冲突，将引发法律混乱。
Rather than offering regulatory clarity on already-passed laws, California will only end up spending valuable resources to defend a law bound to be tied up in court.
加州非但未能厘清现有法律的监管框架，反而要耗费宝贵资源为一项注定陷入诉讼泥潭的法案辩护。
For more details, you can read our full letter to the Governor here.
更多细节，请参阅我们致州长的完整信函。