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Re:Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban soc... by WarOnPrivacy on Monday January 29, 2024 @09:18AM (#39176514)
You can be in favor but in the US it is unconstitutional for a gov to broadly restrict speech. It's why each of these age verification + social media laws eventually get tossed. Legislators know this (or are too dumb to) but it's not their own dollars that are getting burned during this vote-baiting performance.
Re:Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban soc... by bilsbie on Monday January 29, 2024 @11:06AM (#39177893)
The FCC seems to get around that pretty easily not allowing nipples on Tv.
Re:Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban soc... by jcranmer on Monday January 29, 2024 @01:13PM (#39179902)
Only on broadcast TV, and the decision is fundamentally reliant on the nature that RF spectrum is a finite resource to be able to justify the restriction.

SCOTUS has routinely struck down prohibitions against the same things in other media, including explicitly the internet.

Re:Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban soc... by carabiner on Monday January 29, 2024 @02:50PM (#39181499)
Deprecating the Constitution is long overdue.
Re:Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban soc... by spogbiper on Monday January 29, 2024 @04:43PM (#39183107)
honest question, is an american child granted the right of free speech? or do you get that right at a certain age?
Re:Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban soc... by gottorf on Monday January 29, 2024 @09:43PM (#39185792)
> is an american child granted the right of free speech? or do you get that right at a certain age?

This isn't the right way to frame the question. The Constitution prohibits government actors from infringing upon the right to free speech[0], including that of children; meaning e.g. an attempt to censor a child's treatise on some subject would be as illegal as doing the same to an adult. It's not that you get a "free speech license" when you turn 18. The restrictions on government power applies whether or not the person being infringed upon is a minor or an adult.

[0]: This isn't an absolute, unqualified right. A child breaking into a profanity-laden tirade in the middle of class at a public (meaning taxpayer-funded and an extension of the government) school may believe they are exercising their First Amendment rights, but the school may still legally send that child home, for example, on the grounds that it disrupts the schooling of other children.