https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/technology/desantis-florida-ban-tiktok-instagram.html
The statute, passed by the Florida Legislature last week, would have required sites like TikTok and Instagram to deny accounts to underage users, even if their parents permitted them to do so.
I am very honestly surprised. I would have thought he would have touted this as saving children from the woke mind virus or whatever.
He just saw the writing on the wall. Supreme courts all over the states were slapping similar laws down left and right last week.
Exactly. He hasn’t exactly been a supporter of it, and he knows it’s a certain loser, legally. He often touts phrases like “parents’ choice”, and this bill would also go against that. People forget that just because Desantis may be a shitstain doesn’t mean he always toes the GOP line.
Says that they are about to pass a new measure that targets sexual content and addictive features so I guess "don't say gay" but on the internet
Florida with its Republican supermajority is about to join the gotta provide your ID to do anything Republicans publicly feign indignation over and privately enjoy themselves. So much for less government interference. Hypocrites.
$10 says this was staged due to how incredibly desperate DeSantis is for a win, especially with the generation that will soon be voting him out of politics in his upcoming failed bid at the US Senate.
Everything about DeSantis is stage-managed political theater.
Social media is doing an absolutely amazing job polarizing people. Why the fuck would anyone block it if it helped their position?
I'm watching resident alien right now and it's the same smile as the alien pretending to be human.
That's how you know it's a conspiracy that DeFuckstain was just protecting Meta... it's the same code that Zuck uses to smile.
Can't groom em if you protect them from To Catch A Predator mediums.
Not saying it was the wrong decision. Just saying I suspect it was for the wrong reason.