Florida Lawmakers Hope to Curb Social Media Harms Through Education

Clearwater parent Dulce Gonzalez remembers the alarm she felt when she realized her daughter, a pre-teen at the time, seemed addicted to social media, a path she believed was leading the girl toward harm.
She compared it to being hooked on crystal meth.
“I had just gone through a divorce and had to put my kids in public school,” Gonzalez told The Epoch Times. “That’s when I caught [my daughter], who was 12, talking to a 20-year-old man on Discord” an online chat platform.
Protecting children from harmful social media interactions is the aim of SB52, a bipartisan bill introduced in the Florida Legislature by state Sen. Danny Burgess, a Republican from Zephyrhills….}

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