{"id":73721,"date":"2025-12-06T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/73721\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:00:08","slug":"tech-groups-seek-expedited-appeal-of-florida-social-media-law-for-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/73721\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech groups seek expedited appeal of Florida social media law for minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SARASOTA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; Tech industry groups are requesting a federal appeals court to expedite the legal challenge to a Florida law that restricts children\u2019s access to certain social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The groups filed the request days after losing a court decision that allowed the state to begin enforcing the 2024 law. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2025\/12\/04\/desantis-announces-press-conference-villages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2025\/12\/04\/desantis-announces-press-conference-villages\/\">DeSantis proposes AI bill of rights to protect Florida children and consumers<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They want the court to quickly schedule oral arguments on whether the law violates First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The law prevents children under 16 from opening accounts on certain platforms such as Snapchat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The court has not indicated when it may take up the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Tech industry groups are requesting a federal appeals court to expedite the legal challenge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42052,37131,42053,28,30,29,37399,42054],"class_list":["post-73721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-children-social-media-restrictions","tag-federal-appeals-court","tag-first-amendment-challenge","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-social-media-law","tag-tech-industry-lawsuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}