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Letter To Attorney General Ashley Moody
Letter To Attorney General Ashley Moody
Letter To Attorney General Ashley Moody
It has recently come to our attention that of the 44 state attorneys general that have signed on to
support a national effort to discourage Facebook from creating a new Instagram social media
platform for young children, your name was not among the supporters.
We, the undersigned members of the Florida Senate Democratic Caucus, strongly urge you to
reconsider that position.
As the states’ top prosecutors noted, children are ill-equipped to deal with the dangers lurking in
online activity, everything from bullying to sexual predation. Such exposure at young ages can
also have a profound and detrimental impact on mental health, sparking eating disorders, self-
injury, and even suicide. The risks to our children far outweigh any possible benefit Facebook is
proffering, and there is little comfort in the company’s assurances of proposed parental controls
which kids will invariably find ways to circumvent.
On all counts, this is a very bad idea, designed more to guarantee future profit-making for a
social media giant than children’s privacy.
Given your past actions against human trafficking, we were extremely disappointed to see that
your name was not among those signing on to the letter from the National Attorneys General
Association, which called on Facebook to abandon the Instagram for Kids platform. And it
begged the question of whether the culture wars against deplatforming actions by social media
companies currently being waged by Florida’s governor in support of the former president’s hate
speech is influencing your choice to remain silent on this issue.
The calls to Facebook to rethink its actions are hardly partisan, in fact the letter was signed from
both Democratic and Republican attorneys general, including those from New York, South
Carolina, and even Texas, all of them recognizing the inherent risks to our nation’s children
should this dangerous platform launch as planned.
Sincerely,