Parental controls for direct messaging features for teens

(a) Requirement A provider of a covered platform that offers, provides, or enables any direct messaging feature of such covered platform to any teen covered user of the covered platform shall provide easily accessible and usable parental direct messaging controls to a parent of such teen covered user that the parent may activate and manage by providing verifiable parental consent. (b) Accessibility; usability; awareness The parental direct messaging controls described in subsection (a) shall meet the following requirements: (1) Be clearly and conspicuously accessible to a parent of a teen covered user through— (A) the settings of a profile of the teen covered user; and (B) any parental portal or interface offered by the covered platform. (2) Be designed to be user-friendly with clear explanations of the manner in which the parental direct messaging controls operate. (c) Functionality of controls As a default setting on a covered platform, the parental direct messaging controls described in subsection (a) shall allow a parent of a teen covered user of the covered platform to do the following (unless the parent adjusts the default setting with respect to any of the following by providing verifiable parental consent): (1) Receive a timely notification that— (A) alerts the parent about a request from an unapproved contact who seeks to use a direct messaging feature of the covered platform with respect to the teen covered user; and (B) allows the parent to approve or deny the request before the unapproved contact and the teen covered user engage in any direct messaging through any such direct messaging feature. (2) View and manage a list of any contacts approved for engaging in direct messaging with the teen covered user through any direct messaging feature of the covered platform. (3) Be informed if the teen covered user changes the age listed on a profile of the teen covered user on the covered platform (if any such change affects the applicability of such parental direct messaging controls). (4) Disable any direct messaging feature of any such profile. (5) Prevent any specific user, any specific group of users, or other users in general, from initiating or continuing to engage in direct messaging with the teen covered user through any direct messaging feature of the covered platform. (6) Enable the teen covered user to set a profile of the teen covered user on the covered platform as hidden on any search such that— (A) other users are prevented from searching for and finding such profile; (B) other users are prevented from seeing the current online or offline status of the teen covered user; and (C) other users are prevented from initiating or continuing to engage in direct messaging with the teen covered user through any direct messaging feature of the covered platform. (d) No degradation of other features or services A provider of a covered platform may not degrade the functionality or availability of any other feature or service of the covered platform for a teen covered user of the covered platform based on the activation or management of parental direct messaging controls by a parent of the teen covered user under this section (except as necessary to implement any such parental direct messaging controls). (e) No circumvention A provider of a covered platform shall take reasonable measures to prevent a teen covered user of the covered platform from easily circumventing parental direct messaging controls activated and managed by a parent of the teen covered user under this section.