TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — Children are racking up extra display time than ever earlier than on social media, and Florida State Sen. Danny Burgess (R) thinks they want “social media safety” taught in the classroom.
Burgess proposed the bill for the second time this yr, with hopes of constructing it legislation.
If permitted, Florida would possibly require public faculties to educate social media security for the primary time in the state’s historical past.
“It’s about protecting kids,” Burgess mentioned. “It’s about helping them realize things they do today may live long after they posted it.”
The invoice goals to inform youngsters of the benefits and drawbacks of social media by educating them social media literacy.
Both Republicans and Democrats had been on board for an nearly equivalent invoice final session, too. But regardless of bipartisan help, it stalled in committee and died earlier than reaching the chamber flooring.
If handed, the most recent model of Burgess’ proposed invoice requires the state’s Department of Education to provide you with a social media security curriculum. They’d additionally make tutorial supplies obtainable on-line so dad and mom can take a peek themselves.
Another massive a part of this invoice defines — for the primary time in state legislation — what social media is.
The proposed definition? “A form of interactive electronic communication through an Internet website or application by which a user creates a service-specific identifying user profile to connect with other users of the Internet website or application for the purpose of communicating and sharing information, ideas, news, stories, opinions, images, videos, and 31 other content.”
The proposed laws is about to be heard throughout March’s legislative session.