{"id":59101,"date":"2024-01-16T10:58:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T15:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=59101"},"modified":"2024-01-16T10:58:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T15:58:41","slug":"did-you-know-196","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2024\/01\/did-you-know-196\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Paul Waldmiller<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parent Alert! Did you know there is a Florida bill seeking to prevent minors under the age of 16 from having social media accounts?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/January-16-Did-You-Know-PHOTO.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/January-16-Did-You-Know-PHOTO.jpg 728w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/January-16-Did-You-Know-PHOTO-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Florida House and Senate Republicans filed bills last weel designed to prevent minors under the age of 16 from having social media accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bills, House filed bill HB 1 and Senate bill SB 1788, would each require social media companies to prevent minors under the age of 16 from creating social media accounts and will require \u201creasonable age verification\u201d tools to check the ages of each person who attempt to create an account. Those tools to verify age would also require independent organizations to conduct age verification and would as well require denial of accounts who do not verify their age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bills each have the requirement that social media platforms terminate all existing accounts that are \u201creasonably known\u201d by the platforms to be held by minors under the age of 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Waldmiller Parent Alert! Did you know there is a Florida bill seeking to prevent minors under the age of 16 from having social media accounts? Florida House and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":59102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59103,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59101\/revisions\/59103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}