The House passed the bill by a vote of 106 to 13, with many Democrats joining the chamber’s Republican majority in support of the bill. It now heads to the Republican-controlled Senate for consideration.
Right. How do you enforce this? Or is it one of those things where if someone is harassing someone else, and they are found to be a minor, then someone can be prosecuted? Would it be the parents? The platform for failing to have an Age Line charm as impenetrable as Dumbledore’s?
Florida House Bill 1 would prohibit children under the age of 16 from using most social media platforms, regardless of parental approval.
The social media platforms the bill would target include any site that tracks user activity, allows children to upload content or uses addictive features designed to cause compulsive use.
How would this even work? Let’s take a closer look at the first 2 clauses of the second paragraph:
A student portal for accessing lessons and submitting assignments would require tracking activity and uploading content. If that system is accessible to students or anyone else from anywhere other than direct connection to the school LAN, then it would be in contravention of this law.
Or let’s say someone puts up a self-hosted, restricted-access system for extended family to stay in touch without using a commercial or public system (something I’m in the process of doing). Allowing teenagers to use that site would put them on the wrong side of the law.
Brain damaged authoritarian nut jobs…
“Many teens today leverage the internet and apps to responsibly gather information and learn about new opportunities, including part-time jobs, higher education, civic or church gatherings, and military service,” Meta representative Caulder Harvill-Childs wrote to the House Judiciary Committee
Okay, whether or not you favor this bill, this counterpoint is so disgustingly republican attuned that it makes one want to put their head through a wall.
