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🗓️ 29 March 2024
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0:00.0 | It's Friday, March 29, 2024. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
0:13.6 | Big news came out of Florida this week on the issue of teenagers, children, young people, social |
0:17.5 | media. |
0:18.5 | Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law legislation that would basically ban Florida citizens under the age of 14 |
0:26.0 | from access to social media platforms such as Tik-Tok, you can go down the list. |
0:31.1 | Now almost immediately there were charges that this is just |
0:34.0 | too restrictive it cuts down on first amendment access on the part of teenagers to |
0:38.3 | social media it cuts down on free speech all the rest you can imagine where |
0:42.4 | this is going but what's really |
0:44.5 | interesting is to look at the legislation to look at what the governor said and to |
0:48.6 | look at what critics are saying about it now Natasha Singer reporting for the New York Times tells us, |
0:54.0 | quote, Florida on Monday became the first state to effectively bar residents under |
0:58.6 | age 14 for holding accounts on services like Tik-Tok and Instagram |
1:02.8 | enacting a strict social media bill that is likely |
1:05.2 | to upend the lives of many young people, end quote. |
1:08.3 | Well, indeed, it might well up in the lives of many young people. |
1:11.6 | Then again, it might might not because almost immediately |
1:13.7 | this is going to go into the courts and then you're going to have a very interesting |
1:17.0 | setup where it's not just going to be say a liberal conservative question there's |
1:22.4 | actually increasing bipartisan concern |
1:25.1 | about young people in these platforms. |
1:27.3 | But it is a free speech and, say, free technology |
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