TALLAHASSEE — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has vetoed the invoice aimed at maintaining small children under the age of 16 off social media platforms.
On Friday, the governor posted to social media that he experienced vetoed the monthly bill (HB 1) since “the [Florida] Legislature is about to make a distinct, excellent monthly bill.”
“Preserving youngsters from harms related with social media is important, as is supporting parents’ rights and maintaining the capability of older people to interact in nameless speech,” he wrote.
He additional that he hopes the new invoice will “identify these priorities and will be signed into legislation soon.”
The Household and Senate overwhelmingly passed the invoice, which Florida Home Speaker Paul Renner has produced a priority of this year’s legislative session. But, DeSantis has raised concerns about the measure’s constitutionality and irrespective of whether it would infringe on parental legal rights.
Between other points, the bill would avert little ones less than 16 from creating accounts on at the very least some social media platforms need platforms to terminate existing accounts that they know or have “reason to think” are held by minors young than 16 and allow parents to ask for that minors’ accounts be terminated.
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