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“We’re disappointed to see Gov. DeSantis sign onto this route,” Carl Szabo, vice president and general counsel for Net Choice, said in an email statement, calling the law "unconstitutional." “There are better ways to keep Floridians, their families and their data safe and secure online without violating their freedoms.” Both DeSantis and Renner alluded in their remarks to the potential legal hurdles ahead. "You will not find a line in this bill that addresses good speech or bad speech because that would violate the First Amendment," Renner said. "We've not addressed that at all. What we have addressed is the addictive features that are at the heart of why children stay on these platforms for hours and hours on end." He specifically called out Net Choice, saying, “We’re going to beat them, and we’re never ever going to stop.” DeSantis argued the bill is constitutionally sound. “Any time I see a bill, if I don’t think it’s constitutional, I veto it,” he said. He described the bill as "a fair application of the law and Constitution.” And: I Changed My Mind About Kids and Phones. I Hope Everyone Else Does, Too. On the issue of kids, smartphones, and social media, a vibe shift is happening, and it’s happening on the left, right, and in the center. Here’s a survey of recent anti-phone discourse on the topic in politics and culture in recent weeks and months: The TikTok “ban” (don’t call it that) garnered bipartisan support in the House, and Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill making it illegal for people under 14 to have social media accounts in Florida. “People are so unwilling to blame iPhones as one of the main culprits in a variety of social ills but graphs like \[these\] are revealing. It’s obviously the phones,” zillennial writer Magdalene Taylor tweeted, semi-virally, attaching that infamous “teens today aren’t hanging out” graph. Hosts of two podcasts enjoyed by Very Online left-ish millennials, TrueAnon and Time to Say Goodbye, devoted episodes to making freewheeling arguments against the use of social media by kids. (Tyler Austin Harper, a professor at Bates who has written for Slate, even suggested on the latter show that smartphones should be made illegal for use by people under 18. Tyler! A take!) A trend piece in the Daily Beast uncovered interviewees from Gen Z who said that when they had kids, they certainly wouldn’t be letting them 6