Florida bans children under 14 from social media accounts

[joelr]

https://www.techspot.com/community/...14-from-holding-social-media-accounts.285038/

Overreach of state government, or a smart thing to do to protect mental health of children?

 

[Tracy]

Lotsa Luck on enforcing it.
And as far as "fair and impartial implementation of the law".... how many times have we heard that said (especially from Florida and many other right wing strongholds in the U.S.) and the courts disagreed.
Where is the actual parental responsibility come into play? And the idiots in power wonder why we have a lot of the issues we do today. Society and how they, to put it bluntly, exert control on the children has changed. And not necessarily for the better.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I think it should be up to the parents to actually monitor and keep tabs on their children's internet use. Good luck trying to enforce this.

 

[Cory]

COPPA is already hard enough to enforce, so I imagine this will be just as hard if not harder. A notice before you insert an NSFW site or a notice on a registration form isn't going to stop children from using these sites if they know how to deter it.

Since the creation of my message board in 2018, I've only had six accounts that went to the validation queue for being too young per COPPA to join my site. Whether those users ever re-registered with a fake birth date or other users have registered with a fake birth date, that's pretty hard to tell.

 

[ClicketyKat]

I think it was a great decision! I know that if I were around that age in today's world, that it would be a horrifying experience for me to be on social media. My eating disorder probably would have started years sooner and I might not have gotten out of it like I did on my own.

 

[MrDawn]

Overreach of state government, or a smart thing to do to protect mental health of children?

It's also to help keep them off of porn sites and out of reach of child molesters. Texas is doing it too. There's a ton of pornographic ads that go on social media.