Bill would prohibit teenagers from creating an account, and is now headed to the state’s Republican-controlled senate
Florida lawmakers advanced a bill on Wednesday that would prohibit social media platforms from allowing young teens to have an account while requiring everyone else to verify their age.
The measure prohibits anyone under 16 from creating a new social media account and requires platforms to delete existing accounts held by minors who are younger than 16. It also would require social media companies to delete any personal information from the accounts and for the platforms to use a “nongovernmental, independent, third-party not affiliated with the social media platform” to verify users’ age.
The bill passed the Florida house with a bipartisan 106-13 vote and now heads to the Republican-controlled senate.
It just sounds like they don’t want kids to be able to talk to each other about how fucked their state and their educational system is becoming.
That’s exactly it, pre Internet it was easy for them to keep small town kids indoctrinated as a conservative because they could thoroughly control the flow of information
Post Internet it’s simply not feasible without crazy ass laws like this, the second a kid gets online/on social media they see right through the conservative bullshit. It’s not 100% ofc, but the majority yes and they’re seeing it play out with gen z right now and that’s what they’re scared of
And what better way to promote information that you don’t want shared then to ban it.
We were all teenagers once and we all know, once you ban something, it’s like sharks tasting blood in the ocean, it’s a signal to tell young people to go get it find it and use it just to piss off authority.
These laws won’t prohibit young people … it will encourage them to use social media.
You’d think theyd have learned from the federal governments original Child Internet Protection law when every child suddenly turned “18+” lmao
Ding Ding Ding!
100%.