Re:Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban soc...
by cooper_ganglia on Monday January 29, 2024 @02:07PM
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Minors do not have full constitutional rights when it comes to free speech. We've had SC precedence for this for 50+ years, thanks to Ginsberg v. New York.
>"In Ginsberg v. New York, 390 U.S. 629 (1968), the Supreme Court upheld a harmful to minors, or “obscene as to minors,” law, affirming the illegality of giving persons under 17 years of age access to expressions or depictions of nudity and sexual content for “monetary consideration.”
>Judge Fuld of the Nassau County District Court had convicted Sam Ginsberg, who owned a small convenience store in Long Island, New York, where he sold “adult magazines” and was accused of selling them to a 16-year-old boy on two occasions."
It's not good for kids to have unrestricted access to pornography in the same way that it's not good for them to have access to unrestricted social media.
As for voting, it's constitutionally mandated that 18 or older can vote, which implies there's no constitutional mandate for anyone younger.