{"id":2206868,"date":"2024-03-26T18:24:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T22:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-signs-bill-getting-minors-off-of-social-media-thats-a-good-thing\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T18:27:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T22:27:45","slug":"desantis-signs-bill-getting-minors-off-of-social-media-thats-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-signs-bill-getting-minors-off-of-social-media-thats-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis signs bill to remove minors from social media \u2013 a positive step"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-signs-bill-getting-minors-off-of-social-media-thats-a-good-thing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2206868&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Florida\u2062 Governor DeSantis signed a \u2064bill on Monday to remove minors from social\u200b media. Politico reported the news, highlighting concerns about the impact of social media on children&#8217;s development. The\u200c legislation prohibits platforms from allowing children under 14 to have \u200daccounts. Critics argue that \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/excessive-social-media-use-is-no-1-concern-for-parents-as-kids-head-back-to-school-new-poll\/\" title=\"New poll reveals parents' top concern as kids return to school: excessive social media use.\">excessive social media<\/a> use negatively affects children&#8217;s mental health \u200dand social interactions. The move aligns Florida with other states addressing online content regulations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Monday, Florida GOP Governor DeSantis signed legislation to get minors off of social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politico <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/03\/25\/desantis-childen-social-media-ban-00148805\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on the legislation yesterday, saying:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Monday aimed at kicking minors off social media, putting the final stamp on a top Florida Republican priority that is widely expected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-state-legislature-passes-fetal-heartbeat-abortion-bill\/\" title=\"Texas state legislature passes fetal heartbeat abortion bill\">face legal challenges<\/a> from the tech industry.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under the new law, many platforms are prohibited from allowing children younger than 14 to have an account. State leaders contend that accessing social media is harmful to their development and mental health.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is correct. It is. Social media has harmed children, has harmed minors. It has made them less likely to engage in the kinds of activities that make childhood awesome, like going outside, touching grass, actually having and hanging out with friends, studying, and doing homework. Screens suck children in, and social media is the worst form of screens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s not even like a video game; social media is about perverting your child\u2019s mind and sucking them into a world where people do not have their best interests at heart, where they are constantly being told to live up to standards that are not realistic and not real, or where they\u2019re being told they have friends they don\u2019t actually have. That\u2019s what social media does to your kids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and professor at New York University, has an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Generation\/dp\/0735224897\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&#038;qid=&#038;sr=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">excellent book<\/a> about this \u2014 about how social media has destroyed an entire generation of people. It is going to do the same to the next generation unless kids don\u2019t get on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s one of the reasons I have zero plans to give my kids independent Internet access until they hit their late teens at the absolute earliest.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1933-the-feds-raid-diddy-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politico continues, reporting, \u201cThe measure, which also targets adult websites, aligns Florida with other states like Arkansas and Utah that have attempted to rein in social media use, drawing the ire of the tech companies and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dark-money-free-speech-addressed-by-h-r-1\/\" title=\"Dark money, free speech addressed by H.R.1?\">free speech advocates<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/states-push-to-rein-in-big-tech-as-federal-gears-grind-slow\/\" title=\"States Push to Rein in Big Tech as Federal Gears Grind Slow\">free speech rights<\/a> in the United States for minors. Minors\u2019 free speech rights are relatively limited <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">because they are minors<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They do not have the capacity to consent to activity that would normally fall under the preservation of free speech for adults. That is particularly true when discussing topics such as pornography or social media intervention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">DeSantis said, \u201cIt used to be, \u2018Well, if they\u2019re out somewhere, maybe they\u2019re not supervised, maybe some predator can strike.\u2019 Now, with things like social media and all this, you can have a kid in the house \u2014 safe, seemingly \u2014 and then you have predators that can get right in there \u2014 into your own home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politico noted:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Florida\u2019s legislation, FL HB3 (24R), represents a compromise between DeSantis and lawmakers, led by House Speaker Paul Renner, who initially proposed enacting the strictest social media prohibitions in the country.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The original bill, vetoed by DeSantis earlier this month, would have blocked all minors younger than 16 from many social media platforms. The law DeSantis ultimately signed Monday gives parents the power to grant 14- and 15-year-olds consent to use the applications.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is how it works in the state of Florida. We would like to see the government protect our children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that is a very, very good thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Governor DeSantis of Florida signed a bill aimed at removing minors from social media, a top priority for the state&#8217;s Republicans. 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