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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs a law to ban social media accounts for young teens as the Justice Department sues Apple alleging its monopolizing smartphone markets.

Plus a listener writes in asking whether Trump could really

do government business on truth social if he's reelected.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues,

columnist Kim Strassal and Alicia Finley.

The law that Governor Ron DesSantis just signed says this.

A social media platform shall prohibit a minor who is younger than 14 years of age

from entering into a contract with a social media platform to become an account holder.

There is a similar provision that covers those ages 14 or 15 saying that they can only use

social media accounts with parental consent

and all accounts that do not meet those qualifications must be permanently deleted.

This will be policed by the state with violations treated as unfair and deceptive trade practices with civil penalties of up to $50,000 per violation.

Let's listen to a piece of Governor Ron DeSantis, what he said when he

signed this into law. With things like social media and all this, you can have a

kid in the house safe seemingly,

and then you have predators that can get right in there

into your own home.

You could be doing everything right,

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