This afternoon, Florida Governor DeSantis has signed into regulation HB3, an age-verification invoice that requires any web site with 33.3% “materials dangerous to minors” to confirm the age and identification of each customer. The invoice additionally bans minors below the age of 14 from having social media accounts – successfully requiring age-verification of any Floridian with a social media account. The invoice goes into impact on January 1, 2025.
Free Speech Coalition opposed HB3 when it was launched and can work to combat this deeply unconstitutional invoice with our employees, companies and allies, simply as now we have with related payments. We strongly imagine that defending minors on-line is a worthy objective, however forcing a whole bunch of thousands and thousands of adults to sacrifice their anonymity is neither warranted nor justifiable.
Over the following few weeks, we’ll be speaking with our members and allies about subsequent steps in Florida and different states. This isn’t a combat we requested for, nevertheless it’s a combat we are going to win.
