Florida's DeSantis signs one of the country's most restrictive social media bans for minors

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Source: AP

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida will have one of the country’s most restrictive social media bans for minors — if it withstands expected legal challenges — under a bill signed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday.

The bill will ban social media accounts for children under 14 and require parental permission for 14- and 15-year-olds. It was slightly watered down from a proposal DeSantis vetoed earlier this month, a week before the annual legislative session ended.

The new law was Republican Speaker Paul Renner’s top legislative priority. It takes effect Jan. 1.

“A child in their brain development doesn’t have the ability to know that they’re being sucked into these addictive technologies and to see the harm and step away from it, and because of that we have to step in for them,” Renner said at the bill-signing ceremony held at a Jacksonville school.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/florida-social-media-ban-desantis-fd07f61e167bd9109a83cd7355b5f164

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The last paragraph might as well be about the MAGAs.

[sop]

2. DeSantis is giving milion$ of tax dollars to RW Christian charter schools in Florida to indoctrinate students.

[AkFemDem]

3. Checks calendar... yep... it's the one day every decade I have to agree with DeSatan

Social Media has been more harmful to more children than any entity since the Catholic church. Ideally, parents would protect them from it without government oversight but in reality, many parents just hand over a device. The impact social media has on children is well documented by respected organizations, scientists, communications, sociology, and human development experts. Even the social media oligarchs say they wouldn't allow their own kids to have access. Theres ZERO reason for a child under the age of 14 to have access to it, and frankly I'd actually say much older.

[Rebl2]

4. There are

many adults who should not have social media accounts or platforms in my opinion. Example would be majority of republicans.

[hueymahl]

5. I'm nauseous

I actually agree with something proposed by DeSantis

[IcyPeas]

6. Now do guns.

“A child in their brain development doesn’t have the ability to know that they’re being sucked into these addictive technologies and to see the harm and step away from it, and because of that we have to step in for them,”

[SKKY]

7. This really should be a copy and paste, no?

[Maxheader]

8. Worthless, presumptuous bastards..

Like they have a clue what the kids need. Besides protection from their righty "protectors"...

[cstanleytech]

9. Sounds like a blatant 1st amendment violation.