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
this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2024
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Yes, that is the only way to enforce this.
Locking everything behind barbed wire is surely the solution. It has worked so well before.
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 away 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?"
How will Matt Gaetz find his next partner though?
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?
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/591/
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 unfortunately.