Ask any teacher and they’ll tell you that A) kids are getting dumber and more behind academically every year and B) It’s because of phones/social media. When you have 8th graders reading at a 3rd grade level, like over half of the class, that’s a problem. It starts when irresponsible parents shove an iPad in front of their kid at 2 years old and since most parents can’t be bothered to do the right thing (like most people) laws like this are necessary.

Good. Now the U.S please.

Before it was a traffic infraction. At most you would pay a fine. Now it goes on your criminal record.

The law bans that too.

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Well, the “free” state of Fl*rida just made it a misdemeanor to cover your license plate with materials that prevent those fucking Flock cameras from scanning it and putting you in a database so they can use the 'ole American warrantless data purchase loophole (a time-worn classic) to sell your location data to law enforcement and other third parties and upgrades the offense to a felony if used to commit another crime which in Florida could be just about anything. They (or any red state shithole) could literally make sneezing a misdemeanor and get away with it at this point while the MAGAts cheer because only the “bad people” sneeze, not them, never. So all the red state legislatures will probably collaborate to whip up some new bullshit laws at suspiciously the same time stating that if a person attempts to wipe their phone while being detained or gives a false self destruct duress pin to an officer it’s now a class a/type 1/highest tier whatever felony with up to a bajillion years in prison. Then if the courts block it they’ll appeal to a different, Trump appointed judge who will rule that a person “has no reasonable expectation of privacy during detainment by a public defender because they are now legally by definition in public” or some shit all in the name of freedumb of course.

It’s really disheartening to hear people say that a political situation will take decades to fix. Usually that’s being said about the supreme court. Rapid change can happen though, just look at Nepal. I don’t want to accept that the majority of my lifetime will be defined by economic stagnation and political chaos/cruelty. Life is defined by impermanence. Something’s gotta give.

Could this be the beginning of the great unfuckening of Florida?

Do a chat control shirt next.