It’s unenforceable, so it’s just a distraction. I assume any “funding” for this will just be pocketed by the governor & cops.
It’s Florida, so the rationale behind it is probably to stop kids from getting information that might make them good people or that might help then understand themselves.
I hate interacting with children on the internet so this would be a good idea in theory if it wasn’t unenforcable without massive privacy violations.
I’ve good thing Florida has done I guess. SM is a bad thing and bad for our brains.
Also on Jan 1st, Florida is requiring adult websites to ID users before allowing access. So kiss pornhub and other sites goodbye if you don’t have a VPN (because those sites have told Florida to fuck off).
Social media, as it currently exists, is a net negative. We’d all be better off without it.
Even Lemmy, for adults I mean? It’s an infinite book of content, or perhaps more like hanging out at a pub after/instead of work, in that it can be misused but does offer positives of connection, knowledge, enjoyment, correction, and more?
I think that I, as a person born on Jan 1st, 1900, can circumvent age gates, then so will these kids.
This is a major waste of tax dollars.
There is research around this that suggests more than half of all children have profiles with an 18+ age.
I recall the most common is to bump their age by 10 years, keeping the month and day the same. Also, many of these are setup with the guidance of a parent.
Seems like any enforcement of the law would be a constitutional breach. Crazy the free speech party is passing these totalitarian laws
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YouTube is social media. So is email. It’s an online platform where people communicate with each other. Socialisation isn’t all food pics and memes. It’s the foundation of society. That’s why it’s the same root word. The law says children can’t use the internet to participate in society.
The bill does provide some exceptions. According to the bill, the term does not apply to an online service, website or app where the exclusive function is e-mail or direct messaging that could consist of photographs or videos shared only between the sender and recipients.
Email lacks upvotes basically, and an algorithmic feed picking content, so children can still text, chat, email, etc. Although these days even SMS texts allow someone to “react” to messages, though no algorithmic feed and limited distribution list so probably not considered “addictive”.
Anyway it’s surely just security theater on the part of Florida, while at the same time social media is legit addictive - both are true at the same time.
ah, yes, the “land of the free”
