The issue here has absolutely nothing to do with how it affects kids, it has to do with how it affects adults. Again: "States are basically requiring identification to speak or criticize government in the town square."

The fact that the legislation is intended to affect kids is irrelevant if the only legally permitted way to comply damages the individual liberties of adults.

Bingo!

The whole TikTok affair is about AIPAC wanting to shut down a platform that doesnt censor Gaza videos. Has nothing to do with Security.

Same with the Patriot Act.

Gotta keep the people "Safe". Gotta keep the kids "Safe".

Its all lies.

To be clear, I'm not trying to suggest an ulterior motive on the part of DeSantis or the Florida legislature. But effectively requiring a government ID to exercise free speech on the internet damages individual liberty (again, of adults) regardless of whether that's an intended effect or not.

Except that's new too. When I was a kid, I could travel wherever I wanted without anyone calling the police on me. It was just normal for gangs of elementary schoolers to wander about. I'm a millennial, so it wasn't even that long ago this was a thing.

It's crazy. We've stopped treating children like children and started treating them like babies that need constant supervision.

And once again, it is literally safer now than when we were kids. By every crime statistic, it's safer now than ever.

>Even if it was the town square many actual town squares require adults to accompany minors. Sure enough if you had a bunch of unattended 12 year olds hanging out the cops would be called and parents asked to be parents.

What? Where is this the case?