US EditionFlorida Cleared to Enforce Child Social Media Restrictions After Appeals Court Ruling
Florida's HB 3 restricts account creation on social media for children under 14 and requires parental consent for 14- and 15-year-olds, targeting platforms with addictive features.
- On Tuesday, a divided 2-1 panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted Florida's stay request, reversing a June preliminary injunction and allowing enforcement of HB 3 while litigation continues.
- HB 3 prohibits children under age 14 from creating accounts and requires parental consent for many 14- and 15-year-olds, targeting platforms with infinite scroll and autoplay to protect minors.
- Judge Elizabeth Branch wrote in the majority that the law targets platform mechanics and is content neutral, with NetChoice and CCIA, including Google, Meta, and Snap, filing the lawsuit last year.
- Paul Taske said briefing on the injunction has finished and plaintiffs will press on in federal court to challenge the law's constitutional problems, while NetChoice called it a 'censorship regime.'
- If upheld, HB 3's rules could force platforms' identification and age-verification systems to collect user IDs, chilling adults' and minors' speech and raising classification issues excluding some streaming services.
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The Government of Florida has warned that it will start implementing the ban, which will require users of social networks identified to check their age.
Attorney general will now ‘aggressively enforce’ social media ban on minors
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals says the state may begin enforcing a law banning certain minors from social media. (Photo by John McCosh/Georgia Recorder)The preliminary injunction against the state’s social media ban on minors won’t last, an appeals court concluded this week. Two judges on a three-judge panel told the state Tuesday it may begin enforcing a 2024 law that prohibits young Floridians from using social media while litigation …
Miami, U.S.A., Nov 26 (EFE).- A U.S. appeals court allowed Florida to enforce a law that prohibits children under 14 years of age from having a social media account, while resolving in substance an industry lawsuit that claims the rule violates freedom of constitutional expression. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned, by two votes to one, the temporary blocking of HB3 law that had been ordered by a judge in June, so the Florida governme…
State Gets OK to Enforce Social Media Law
By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — A divided federal appeals court Tuesday ruled that Florida can begin enforcing a 2024 law aimed at preventing children from having access to certain social-media platforms, rejecting arguments that the measure violates First Amendment rights. A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, granted the state’s request for a stay of a preliminary injunction that U.S. …
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