Re:Florida Passes Law Banning Social Media for Minors Under 14
by pyuser583 on Monday March 25, 2024 @11:19PM
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And when public schools create an account on Google for a child? And require active use of the account as a condition for receiving an education?
Is the school responsible for that?
The state I’m in guarantees the right to a free state education. If that right is predicated on my child having a Google account, is that my fault as a parent?
Re:Florida Passes Law Banning Social Media for Minors Under 14
by whatshisface on Monday March 25, 2024 @11:24PM
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It's a massive infringement of your natural rights to be forced to create a Google account for your child. That said, I don't see why that's a reason to keep someone else's 13 year old off Twitter.
A result X may happen because of more than one entity A, B, etc. In this case: the rapist is obviously at fault. If the rape happens because the child was neglected/unsupervised, then the parents may be 100% at fault as well.
Similarly parents who give their children phones and are neglectful via not supervising them should be 100% liable for harm that is caused as well as the harm-causing entity. If they cannot supervise them they should not give them the phone. You wouldn't give an 8 year old a weapon and then divert blame from yourself if the child killed someone, so why is it really any different because it's a phone?
If your 10 year old makes a Facebook account, and Facebook doesn't delete it when knowledge of the user's age is known, Facebook is in the wrong, and the parent that didn't bother checking what their child is doing is also equally as wrong, and both should be fined equally.