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🗓️ 6 April 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | Over the last couple years especially it seems like a lot of people a lot of the public |
0:05.4 | has really noticed that governments are noticing and really taking inventory of their online activity and conversations and using legislation |
0:16.2 | to solve some of the issues with this. |
0:19.6 | Recently in Florida, that's the latest state to try to solve what a lot of people have concerns about |
0:25.0 | minors accessing social media kids under 14 years old and this is what it looked like |
0:29.6 | in the news check it out okay social media showdown in Florida it is |
0:34.0 | is being called one of the most restrictive social media bans in the country |
0:38.0 | governor randa santis has signed house bill three into law |
0:42.0 | banning children under 14 from having social media accounts |
0:45.0 | on platforms considered to have addictive qualities. |
0:48.9 | It also mandates that social media platforms search for and remove the profiles of kids who don't meet the |
0:54.2 | age requirement. Being buried in those devices all day is not the best way to |
0:59.3 | grow up and you know there's dangers out there, we've got predators who prey on young kids. |
1:05.0 | They know how to get and manipulate these different platforms. |
1:08.6 | It's created huge problems. |
1:10.8 | This law does not ban specific websites. |
1:13.2 | Instead, it zeros in on features that are considered addictive, like infinite scrolling |
1:18.0 | and auto play videos. |
1:19.7 | What is still unclear, though, is just where this law stands. |
1:22.4 | The Trade Group, Net Choice, which represents several major social media giants, |
1:26.0 | slammed the move as unconstitutional saying it violates the First Amendment, |
1:30.0 | the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and federal law. |
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