a commercial entity that publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on a website or application that contains a substantial portion of such material to perform reasonable age verification methods, prevent access to such material by minors ...
(d) "Material harmful to minors" means any material that:
The average person applying contemporary community standards would find, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;
Depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct as specifically defined in s. 847.001(19); and.
When taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.
entities must:
(a) Perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age of a person attempting to access the material is 18 years of age or older and prevent access to the material by a person younger than 18 years of age. The reasonable age verification method must be conducted by an independent third -party not affiliated with the commercial entity.
"weird" how none of the news stories actually links to the text of the bill, i hate that
even the FL gov website press release doesn't
https://www.flgov.com/2024/03/25/governor-desantis-signs-legislation-to-protect-children-and-uphold-parental-rights/
finally found it
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/00003/
what is actually legislated is:
(d) "Material harmful to minors" means any material that:
entities must:
(a) Perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age of a person attempting to access the material is 18 years of age or older and prevent access to the material by a person younger than 18 years of age. The reasonable age verification method must be conducted by an independent third -party not affiliated with the commercial entity.
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SOCIAL MEDIA