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Florida Banning Social Media for Kids
The Florida House has passed a law through bipartisan support prohibiting kids under the age of 16 from using social media. We are the first state which has taken an action long overdue. What sites should be banned though and how can it be enforced?
Florida House passes bill banning children under 16 from social media: 'Kids can't stay off the platforms' It’s about time! |
Where there is a will there is a way. We don’t need legislation if parents would do their job.
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Cyber bullying, Tiktok dares as well as most rebellious behavior suggestions could be reduced. |
Not the first state to try something like this.
Not a law yet. Not a good idea. |
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Florida seems to pass a lot of laws that are impossible to enforce. For example, you need a permit to solicit door-to-door. But, there is no fine, so I guess the only enforcement would be for a police officer to arrest you.
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The internet is easily filtered, but I doubt that the legislature will do any more to enforce this law than they did when American Integrity dropped the insurance on my 14-year-old roof (the year they passed a law that said they couldn't), or get "Bogus Money, and More" off my TV (after they passed Tort Reform). |
Not something I can agree with. It would be impossible to enforce fairly, should be the choice of parents/guardians, etc., we don't need "mommy and daddy" government committee deciding which web site is okay or not okay. On last night's news, our governor wisely said he understands the desire of some to do such a thing, but he went on to say he couldn't see how it could be don't fairly or correctly any better than parents should/could do. I put this idea in a knee-jerk idea category of a solution in search of a real problem.
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Looks like something the kids will get around quickly.
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Another election year nutty idea. There are also certain states considering banning and removing books that tell about a certain part of our country’s history that they don’t like. And they would ban books by authors they don’t like.
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Allowing kids to be children is important and removing this huge obstacle would be applauded. |
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Check out Ezekiel 20:23 if you don't believe me. It's pretty insane that children are ENCOURAGED to read this stuff. |
This law should not and will not be passed.
Now I’m not saying that young kids should use social media, in fact with all the bullying going on I wouldn’t let my kids. But this is another step to taking our freedoms away. |
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Would someone explain to me why it’s wrong to wait until a child reaches adulthood and reads these books. Is reading the books at a young age better for indoctrination? I am a voracious reader but most of the reading has been through adulthood. Again, why the push to target children? |
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If it’s allowed, you can’t keep your children from it even if they personally aren’t using social media. They just need to be attacked from that media. |
Survival of the fittest.
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My daughter says it is terribly frustrating to be the parent of a teen. Just when parents discover and block sites, kids find a work-around. She says it is like playing whack-a-mole. When parents take away their child’s phone, a friend provides a burner phone. She tells horror stories about challenges on TikTok. So glad the internet wasn’t around when my kids were teens. All I had to do was unplug her phone and hide it.
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On paper sounds good. In meantime, most of these < 16 year olds know more about computer than their parents and most of them are 2-3 clicks away from hard core porn. Enforce it? Police Squad will be replaced by Internet Police. Leslie Neilson would have a field day. In meantime Sumter County deputies are ticketing golf cart drivers for speeding. When are they going to start arresting men from using the womans bathroom on a golf course and vice versa. Yes, our legislature recently said that a person needs to use the restroom per WHAT they were at birth and that is against the law. If a male is playing golf with 3 other guys and 4 of us need to go, guess where 1-2 of them are going. This could happen to the ladies also. Our legislature is clue less. |
These law makers can't be serious, they can't stop kids younger than 16 from drugs, porn, drinking and sex. The cat is already out of the bag do they really think the can stop someone from going on to social media who's already made it part of their daily life.
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Police state
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You do realize we still have parents out there that think it’s OK for their kids to use their phones in class? Yes, that rudeness towards others is out their and even encouraged by some. They don’t care about the impact their kids actions have on others or learning. |
It seems like nobody here is familiar with the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which the Supreme Court has found applies to all states as well!
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How can you even enforce such a law? What are the punishments if it is enforced? Is it really about "protecting" children or getting more money in the coffers from the fines that would be levied? |
The worst part is having to prove you are an adult. How will that be done?
Scanning and submitting your driver license? Maybe your SSN? Send in a tax return too? Do you really want Facebook to have that much information about you? Will they promptly delete that info after validation to prevent it from being misused or stolen (hacked)? There will be 2 groups of people. Those who cave to this, and those who know how to get around it. |
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Unless a child is provably at-risk (and I suppose an argument could be made for that, in this case), I generally don't favor government stepping in. But in this particular case I think the emphasis is in the wrong place. Rather than banning sites so that KIDS cannot access provably dangerous sites, why not penalize PARENTS when it is proven that their children access such sites? Such a move would take the onus of parenting away from the government and place it squarely back on the parent(s), where it belongs. |
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Kids can and should be treated different than adults, they don’t always know better. The internet is basically unfiltered for all. Should it remain unfiltered for the more vulnerable youth, or just let them get crushed? |
More government trying to regulate our lives.
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it's about time?
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Good luck with that.
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Wow, this is the worst case over government overreach yet. I wish Florida would concern itself with insurance costs, overbuilding and crime...... instead of posturing at Disney, banning books and other freedoms that I dare not mention. The free state of Florida gets less free every day.
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It's a nice idea but that cats already out of the bag. A lot of parents gjve the cell phone to kids as a baby sitter. There are "games" available to children on the cell phone, some if which have unsuitable images and languages.
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Book Bans in Florida Schools: The Complete List | Miami New Times
Here is a list of banned books here in Florida. One county does ban many books related to The Bible as well as that Holy Book. |
Social media with children IS a problem. There is a lot of cyber bullying, juvenile and adult. What's the answer? Perhaps teaching children the difference between right and wrong is a good start. Kind of hard for some adults, especially those that shouldn't have children because they are unfit when it comes to parenting. Kind of hard when judges severely punish small violations of the law and a slap on the wrist for murder and manslaughter. Values are different for individual folks, but individuals should respect other folks views, regardless of belief. You can disagree without being aggressive and even sometimes violent.
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