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Florida is on the verge of passing one of the nation's most restrictive bans on minors' use of social media after the state Senate passed a bill Thursday that would keep children under the age of 16 off popular platforms regardless of parental approval.

The measure now goes back to the state House, where the speaker has made the issue his top priority during the legislative session that ends March 8. Still, critics have pointed to similar efforts in other states that have been blocked by courts.

The bill targets any social media site that tracks user activity, allows children to upload material and interact with others, and uses addictive features designed to cause excessive or compulsive use. Supporters point to rising suicide rates among children, cyberbullying and predators using social media to prey on kids.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Good start but we should ban it for everyone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The social media is turning the kids into leftists. Can't have that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I dont want the government to ban things, but parents should not be giving their kids social media and smart phones at such young ages. Its overwhelmingly common, but a really bad idea.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can't believe I'm gonna say this but...good job Florida?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I'm not used to this emotion either.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Florida or not, it's a good idea. You can't stop the internet and you can't ask international websites to do this (how would you stop federated websites doing this anyway that are in other countries? You can't)

Put it on the parents, teach your kids, monitor what they are doing, show some responsibility. Actually, don't give kids a phone at all until they're at least 14 or so

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I see a chance of Lemmy and mastodon becoming a lot more popular. Plus a spike in vpn useage. All they're doing is encouraging people to get clever and circumvent those rules. Fuck Florida

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They just don't want teens communicating so they don't tell their friends when they get SAed

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wtf? What kind of conclusionsis that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Same as the ones who said once abortions are illegal, rape would go away like COVID

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Supporters point to rising suicide rates among children, cyberbullying and predators using social media to prey on kids.

That isn't the reason for this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah if they actually cared about that they wouldn't be demanding lgbtq people and helping make their suicide rates higher.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Get off my Facebook lawn kids reeeee

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Exceedingly rare Florida W

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They've gone so far to the right that they accidentally did a leftism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

300% right makes a left, or some such math

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

As backwards as Florida is on most issues, this is actually just common sense at this point. We have the data that shows that exposure to social media, in all its "look at how awesome my life is!" shittiness, is detrimental to a child's social and psychological development. There's almost an entire generation of kids that have zero attention span, porn addictions, and depression from engaging in a completely untested and cutting edge form of communication that is way too open to bad actors and predators to exploit.

edit: I'm not making any comments about Florida's desire to control the flow of information, because at this point it's just conjecture.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's more the internet in general. Us millennials were also pretty fucked up by internet porn and the availability of short form media.

I remember my parents talking about how we have no attention span because of things like YouTube and our cartoons. Same shit different generation.

Also just like we did they'll find a way to use it anyway.

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