Submitted 4 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
Florida Senate takes up bill banning kids from having social media accounts::Critics have said the bills are unconstitutional and violate First Amendment protections.
Every now and then, Florida does something I agree with. It’s always a surprise. Maybe also ban parents from making social media channels that exploit their children.
Maybe this is a hot take, but it’s really unfortunate that only the unhinged conservative lunatics are willing to have this discussion. I actually think that it’d be really healthy in a democracy to come together and exercise some agency in how we allow tech companies to access our children, if at all, but American liberals seem committed to some very broken notions of technocratic progress paired with free speech, while American conservatives are happy to throw all that way in order to have total control over their children, arriving closer to the right place for very dangerous reasons.
Maybe this is a hot take, but it’s really unfortunate that only the unhinged conservative lunatics are willing to have this discussion.
It’s because the US has no left wing. There are the Democrats, who are more than happy to see big corpos getting rich by exploiting people. And there are the Republicans, who basically believe the same thing, but with an extra helping of being super reactionary to any kind of societal change. Neither party would approach this question from the perspective of “what does the science say about this topic?”
Locking everything behind barbed wire is surely the solution. It has worked so well before.
Everyone will need a ID for online access boooo…but for the kids…yeahhhhhh…will make the companies pay for it…fuck no all ISPs leave Florida and social sites block Florida. Florida is thrown back to dial up connections
They’ll just pass another law saying that ISPs can’t leave. Problem solved! ¯_(ツ)_/¯
It wont be a law cause they know it would fail in courts. They would do the same as with insurance companies leaving. Will we start a investigation into this…and never hear about it again.
I’ve never used 4chan but I have the impression you don’t need an account to post there. Does that make it bypass this law?
How will Matt Gaetz find his next partner though?
There’s no good links from the article about the actual wording of the bill, but you all realize this would probably affect Lemmy and Mastodon too, right?
That would very much depend on the specific implementation details. If it’s done in the same vein as pornographic content it would be as simple as adding a “If you live in Florida you must be over 18 to create an account. Click here to certify you don’t live in Florida or are over 18.” disclaimer to the account creation page. If it tries to add some kind of identity verification service that requires companies to use, then that’s a whole other problem and would effectively make it DOA.
If a server and it’s staff aren’t located in Florida, do they actually have much enforcement ability?
As I get older, I’ve realized that places like here and reddit would be wildly better if everyone younger than me wasn’t allowed to use it, lol. :P
Everyone is younger than me…
How to get social media blocked in your state.
As far as I’m aware, it was already illegal for under 13s, no? Just not enforced in the slightest.
nix@merv.news 4 months ago
How do y’all who say this is good not realize this is a way to get everyone to have to submit their ID to prove their age and so you can be tracked even more intensely
nodsocket@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes, that is the only way to enforce this.