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FL Governor DeSantis Signs Strict Bans on Youth Social Media Use

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0:00 dude if they saw what I was looking at they'd be ████ yeah they looking at me very different my dad when I was a kid got caught me looking at rotten.com rotten.com was crazy remember rotten yeah and he was it blew his mind that that was like on a regular [Music] website so you guys hear about that the uh Florida Governor his name happens to be Ron Des sanctimonious that's what Donald Trump meatball Ron that's what Donald Trump call Meatball right that's him meatball Ron yeah eating all the meatballs meatball Ron he eats the meatballs he lives up I don't know I don't like him I don't know I don't like that's good um he just signed one of the country's strictest bans on kids using

0:50 social media cool we see how does as a father you got to be nervous right Tech is getting up there now like he's about to be able to get a phone and like probably 3 months he has a iPad well there you go it's kind of like a mini phone what keeps him from getting on social medias he doesn't have social media he does have YouTube kids on there yeah and then he has Netflix and he has got a dope Reddit account bunch of weird ass games that's it you created an IG does he know that he has an IDE I don't really use it I use this the tag and it's more like a photo album so it it does exist this but I don't even know the password to it that's why I stopped posting on it I forgot what the password you got more followers than half my friends no doubt one day he's not going to be like um I need to start making

1:40 more content on that page we got a monage cont if he wants to do it I would actually guide him I'm I'll help you yeah but it has to come from him I don't want to impose my stuff on him but then I would actually guide him cool sick but I am scared like once he gets into that range where like all his friends have phones they're all watching stupid ████ I'm like how do I interfere in a way where I don't make him feel left out but still not contribute to the ████ suicide rate statistics of young kids exactly so how do you feel about a law which takes effect January 1st of next year ban social media accounts for all kids under 14 requires that 15 and 16 year olds get parental consent to have accounts period and social media platforms will be required to terminate accounts in violation

2:30 with the law wow only in the State of Florida yeah I say I say that the they need to do something that uh I think some of the worst accounts by kids are the ones that parents have consent for how so cuz there's ████ social media stage parents that put their kids in even if they don't want it and that doesn't help that situation so then all we're left with are those and the and some of these kids who are kind of like not problematic to themselves or anyone else now they just can't use it so it's kind of like oh did we really like what are you actually fixing so Ron the sanctimonious he said the social media has been given predatory adults a tool to undermine parents efforts to protect their kids unfortunately we've got Predators who pray on young kids it used

3:21 to be well if they're out there somewhere maybe they're not being supervised maybe some Predator can strike now with things like social media and all this you can have a kid and the house safe seemingly and then you have predators that can be right in there in your home you could be doing everything right but they know how to get in and manipulate those different platforms yeah I don't think it really does anything kids kids are better than parents at navigating around this loophole anyway that's like absolutely like LimeWire was illegal true we all used it I don't know this is just for the sake of conversation but like is it is it productive to make legislation or like rules around these things based off of like the cuz I I don't assume that the entire platform for people who are young that have social media accounts it's like they're just like under threat

4:12 to like online Predators like I I know that that happens but I don't assume that that's like the entirety of their experience so to like um ban everyone from being able to use it in order to stop this like maybe potentially small but impactful percentage of experience is like maybe not the uh best foundation to build like some sort of legislation on you know I think it's the whole enchilada so I think the couple things that the guys that want to ban social media for like teens and kids is Predators then the 24/7 bullying versus like you know physical bullying at school Nick beats me up I go home I'm chilling but now you go home Nick either record something of me that thing goes viral it's constant there's 24/7 bull going on comments and so you can't

5:02 really Escape that and then I think the third one is just the stats of like crazy amounts of anxiety and depression and kids then I guess maybe like um hypothetically if I was a voter in Florida I would probably be more inclined to get behind it if like quote unquote the whole enchilada was like presented versus just like there's adult online Predators that's why like they shouldn't have social media but don't you think it's it's maybe good to just be over reactionary than under reactionary we're like you might as well just like try to blanket attack yeah but I think it would be logical to like put all of those very understandable things that are also an issue for like kids who have Accounts at that age right I think I guess the point is I would if I was a parent hypothetically I'm not I'm not a parent um I would just want to know on such an extreme thing that I'd be voting

5:52 on to like know really like the fullness and of the parameters of that so that I would like really have a good foundation in my vote otherwise if I was like voting on it because of the fear of possibly having my kid be a victim of that type of predatory thing I think of course that's an issue and that's bad but I don't know if that would be like enough to make me be like all children should not have social media accounts I think I'll be like oh ████ those are all issues here are the stats or here's the evidence i' be like ████ yeah I believe that is all I'm saying yeah yeah I there's also a part of me that feels like I like I I feel kind of funny about it because the state of why social media is so dangerous is also because of our generation yeah so it's like we ████ around with this thing and had no kind of way of I guess like creating it to be safe enough and then now we're like you

6:42 guys shouldn't use it cuz it's so bad it's like we kind of that's our AG we still keep using exactly yeah and like we're going to keep going I think also too it's like a preventative thing because not even just from the aspects that you talk about social media of just looking of getting like bullied or increasing anxiety and depression in kids but I think it's just the act of like I see ████ grown adults that just can't stop themselves from just pulling out their phone and just being on it they can't even be yeah and it's like from a behavior standpoint like that is also really dangerous because think about everyone has a problem with attention deficit everyone can't focus on something they need like and I'm I'm like this too now you know but I seen in my parents I se in ████ all ages so you imagine like what happens to kids when they start doing this by the time they're you know when they have less

7:32 impulse control exactly and and this is so you're just like trying to save them from it but also that social media has to be contextualized to kids too like that's a whole another conversation so I think a lot of the times some of these guys are like for us to get the best effect we just need to get rid of it and not allow them to get there until a certain age so it's like at that point for 15year olds it's like okay you have to wait till you're 15 all right that sounds fair to me you know Wonder from from kids shouldn't have rights I think yeah from a from a non-offensive but scientific standpoint as a Californian I'm super down for Floridians to do this so that we can see what happens you know what I'm saying so if I had any kind of issue I'd be like oh I don't know where to vote on this I'm down to watching you guys do it Happ you know what I'm saying because like that's the whole point of science too right like you have to test something it might sound crazy but it's

8:22 like I'm for the ████ science yeah California's down it's also like I think it's a generally a good idea to hold off on more like adult stuff for kids anyway like I think social media is kind of like a kind of more of an adult thing no what do you mean by that arguable right but kids are always going to find their way like thinking about what we did cuz even you know like when you go to like porn sites it's like when you're when when are you 18 like who's clicking no idiots I remember being like 14 going ████ yeah I'm 18 I'm like God damn it I'm Catholic I'm not like how enforcable is this like where's the ████ yeah but yeah yeah I think when it comes to technology kids are always going to outsmart parents no matter what Generations we're talking about the biggest hackers on the Earth right now are like little little ████ kids it's true te legitimately I think that the real answer to this is the tough one

9:14 where like parents need to build a really strong Rel yeah cuz you build a strong relationship with but that's a real answer it is yeah yeah and then by the time they are teens and as they're experiencing the world hopefully they share that world with the parent and the parent guide from the back rather than like control from the front how can the parent do that and watch the voice for how does how do you do those two things how do about selling Sunset right but it's true though the the the quickest route to making something even more desirable for younger people is to stigmatize it or make it not allowed so it's like you run the risk of also making it cooler than it ever could be like nothing will make it cooler than that yep legitimately that's what I that's actually ultimately what I think is going to happen because it's not like people are like Ronda santz is ████ cool as

10:05 ████ I think this basically runs the risk of like a counterculture burgeoning moment that like people are underestimating yeah especially if you make them feel like at any point this could be taken away from me then they're going to they'll be prone to do more with it now before it's G that's true you know they're going to Wild out again from California I'm kind of down to see the theory happen you know what I mean so we can we can learn because it is a theory at the end of the day we we have no idea what's going to happen but that's the thing that's weird is that because it's a kind of a conservative point of view it it does feel like it's one of those things that just appeases adults rather than it actually helps kids you know what I mean it's like it's more like I'm doing this because the adults all want me to do it and they'll all like be on my side if I do it versus that's why that's why I'm saying too like I would at least need like data proven things about how like social

10:55 anxiety or bullying from a statistical point of view is like a heavy impact on these things cuz then it'd be like you might argue that but then there's like facts of your generation you know what I'm saying then I'd be like okay it'd be easier to swallow enforcing it is all I'm not saying it's right I'm just saying like it'd be easier to swallow the idea of voting for it the biggest thing would be proving how it can actually be effectively enforced cuz that's the first thing I think if you're going to make that move that's the problem with our ████ generation bro I remember the Nickelodeon's the big help and they're like you call in and you get to hear your favorite Nickelodeon characters say like what's up and ████ and I was like dude I'm going to I'm going to pledge as many hours as it takes to hear every single Nickelodeon character and I was at the end of thing I I pledge like 24,000 hours I I went outside for 35 minutes I picked up traction I was like this sucks it's hot I went inside and Nick and

11:47 Nickelodeon when you watch the like big help Marathon at the end they're like we raised 200 million hours or I'm like bro I didn't contribute it says I did it says I did and that's the thing when you got ████ what's his name the blue guy from Doug being like Steve you're the man yeah I'm like oh ████ this a sker from Doug oh I hope I hear Doug next [Laughter] time you don't know how you you can't gain kids dude kids know what they're doing so then I'm like okay yeah same thing oh yeah Pledge 5 hours yeah can I talk to Doug I'll hold can I talk to Doug yeah it's it's legit for you yeah that's very true but yeah it's all ████ complete ████ so

12:38 Nickelodeon they're like oh man we're saving so many turtles we're the rings on those little know all the cans you buy they're cutting those things I wasn't I wasn't doing anything I literally just called the thing for 20 minutes and then I was done but I pledge like 6,000 hours that's why I also respect ████ parents of these kids in this age cuz like how the ████ are you supposed to keep all that ████ in line no there's so much no cuz it ain't just social media it's also just general internet like your kid can run into whatever the ████ we were looking at some really bad stuff as a kid and doing a really good job of hiding it from my parents my parents had no ████ idea no ████ idea we think they had no ████ idea two degree two degre dude if they saw what I was looking at they'd be ████ yeah they looking at me very different my dad when I was a kid got

13:28 caught me looking at Rotten Ron ron.com was crazy remember rotten yeah and he was it blew his mind that that was like on a regular website yeah yeah yeah you had to teach him there's this one mom um that that brings her kids to ta's basketball practice and you know like when moms have like kids the kids that are practicing they're like cool they're like this is 1 hour physical activity but they some moms also have other kids so I always try to see like how they try to like parent oh yeah and then she has a set of twins one kid is like glued to her phone for a whole hour and then the other kid has these fake power tools and he's just going crazy on ████ water fountain like like and I'm like sitting there I'm like damn if I was a parent like what do I do do I go get your ass back watch the

14:19 phone or you're like but this is like frying his brains or do you go the kid that's on the phone like go make a nuisance like your brother cuz that kid was going crazy making all kinds of noise I'm like is ████ what if that kid was watching like correct power tool usage oh okay okay cabinet cabinet installations he's like okay and B just like what a piece of ████ feel glue do his ████ do what he's doing [Music]

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