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Florida's Speaker Talks Kids And Social Media, Florida's Supreme Court Rulings · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  All right, five minutes after the hour of the Morning Show with Preston Sky
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  Revenge of the Rhinos in just a little bit, but first thrilled to have
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  on the program. He is the Florida Speaker of the House, Representative Paul
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  Renner. How are you, Paul, Good morning, Preston. How are
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  you well. I'm doing terrific, but it's you know, every day around
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  here is just fun. But you, sir, have just gone through the
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  gauntlet for a couple of years. How are you doing well? Trying to
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  get some sleep and remember what normal look like. But we're still busy.
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  It hasn't slowed down a lot yet. So give us a little insight.
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  What does life look like when you are an outgoing House speaker. Well,
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  there's still you know a lot of bill's signings and what the governor and will
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  be again on a number of bill signings. There are housekeeping issues, HR
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  issues, lawsuits that were bringing or defending and the like, and so there's
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  still quite a lot going on, different things that go through and every day
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  is a different look and a different challenge. I know that the legislative priority
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  for you, House Bill one kind of became House Bill three, correct that's
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  right. We had two vehicles. Three was originally just a pornographic piece and
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  one was just the social media piece. Those merged and then merged again,
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  and they merged in HB one, and then they merged again into HB three
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  with some changes requested by the governor, and frankly, once we started chatting,
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  some that we thought made sense and made the bill stronger in some aspects.
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  When you say stronger, I'm going to just guess here that you mean
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  more likely to withstand a legal challenge. Is that fair? That is fair?
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  And that's a good clarification because obviously the two things we were looking at
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  is one to be effective, that it's not just a messaging bill, a
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  chance to do a press conference that actually works and does what we want it
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  to do. And secondly, that it's constitutional, So by that I mean
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  not more likely to be upheld as constitutional. Let's break down with you at
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  the helm here. What does House Build three do here in the state of
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  Florida. Well, it looks at certain platforms. It doesn't certainly ban kids
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  from the Internet or even social media platforms. If they don't meet all of
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  the following conditions. They have to have a personalized algorithm that essentially surveils your
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  child and gathers information and learns everything they can possibly know about them, and
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  then creates contact back to them to keep them online as long as possible.
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  Secondly, it has to have one or more addictive features like likes and notifications,
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  the infinite scroll, things that make you want to stay on long or
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  make you feel good to be on. It has to allow you to both
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  upload content and be able to download content from someone like a total stranger in
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  the middle of the items of your parents have gone to sleep. And then
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  finally, the fourth item is it has to have evidence of addiction itself,
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  meaning some percentage of daily active users have to be on the platform at least
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  two or more hours a day. How is all of that verified? I
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  mean, how do you trust the makers of these platforms that, Okay,
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  we got rid of that algorithm. How do you know, Well, we
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  can see most of those things. Certainly, the addictive features we can see
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  by going online. We can see the upload and download by going online.
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  The algorithms can be known through discovery, and that is a lawsuit and so
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  the age the Attorney General has some enforcement capability. That's significant that's one of
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  the changes we may. We ramped up the penalties, the amount of penalties,
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  the ability for punitive damage is for the Attorney general to pursue if these
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  platforms do what they're doing today, which is systematically ignore the law that is
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  federal law today and let kids that are eight, nine, ten years old
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  online without their parents' knowledge or consent, just let them run amok online.
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  And the same is true for these pornographic websites where you just have to click
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  a button s thing you're over eighteen and some eight year olds watching kiddie porn
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  online. And so we really have two different issues in one bill, both
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  of which are very important, both of which need to survive constitutional challenge.
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  The obscenity piece is considered not speech by the core or is at least given
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  a lower standard of review, a more easy standard of review. And the
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  social media platforms is new technology. Then we've focused on technology, so the
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  court doesn't look at it and say this is a content based restriction on free
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  speech. We believe it's not because we focused on the technology. Like being
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  told what to believe by the liberal media, get a refreshing dose of truth.
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  It's the Morning Show with Scott on news radio one hundred point seven WFLA.
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  For a few more months, he's the Florida Speaker of the House.
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  Paul Renner with US Representative Renner. One of the big stories we've talked about
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  today is the Florida State Supreme Court decision to allow it's a four to three
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  vote, the abortion amendment to go before voters. I really, you know,
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  I'm not an expert in this stuff, but I do read a little
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  bit, and I'm really struggling with this ruling because they have left the word
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  that viability just hanging out there, and it is so ambiguous. It reminds
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  me of the argument with assault weapons. Okay, let's define that. What
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  are your thoughts first, just your personal reaction. Secondly, is this something
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  the legislature needs to consider stepping in and defining viability? Well, it's an
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  interesting question on whether we can do that, and I think we could certainly.
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  But you know, viability can be twenty weeks, can be twenty five
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  weeks, and if you're the proponents, it's as long as possible. And
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  if you run the math on that we're talking about, you know, five
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  months, you know, bumping up on six months of pregnancy that the vast
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  majority of Floridians would say that is too long. That is too long to
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  go. Even if you call yourself pro choice and say it should be allowed
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  for any reason through the first trimester, you know, twelve weeks, thirteen
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  weeks, fifteen weeks. This is much much longer than that. And the
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  other piece of it that even offends me more is the next line. And
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  that's where the real trick is. I think Preston is the health exception,
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  which the courts have handled by saying it's really anything anything you want it to
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  be, and so and by any health practitioner, not a doctor, but
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  by a health practitioner health provider rather, which is also undefined. So it
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  can be the receptionist to the planned parenthood clinic who happens to be providing healthcare
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  as they see it. And so it is. It is really an extreme
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  amendment, and voters need to know that. Our voters need to know it,
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  but also pro choice voters that would call themselves pro choice need to know
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  this goes far, far beyond what they're comfortable with. Allowing late term abortions,
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  obliterating any kind of parental consent requirements if your minor child were to have
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  to get pregnant, these kinds of things that most people are not comfortable with
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  would be included and required by this amendment. Mister speaker, with all due
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  respect, I'm going to pick a little bit at the language that you,
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  and quite frankly most people are using that are on the side of life on
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  this, and they fall into what I think is a false trap on the
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  word viability and keeping it within the context of a pregnancy. The fact is,
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  viability doesn't come until a child is maybe three, four, five years
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  old, And to me, that's the argument that needs to be advanced.
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  Babies are not viable on their own outside the womb at three months old,
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  six months old, a year and a half, and I think we've got
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  to push that issue a lot to sway popular opinion. I think you're right.
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  It's interesting you say that because I was making this comment to someone on
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  the way home last night. Is you know, I've got a two year
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  old just turned two, and one that's going to turn four in May,
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  and you know, when they're born, they can't walk, they can't feed
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  themselves, they can't you go to the bathroom on their own, they can't
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  do anything on their own? Are they viable? Can they live on their
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  own? No, they can't. And what you know the left doesn't want
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  to talk about is, you know, there's this continuum from the time of
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  conception all the way through. But you're right, and we know brain development,
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  we go back to social media. Your brain is not fully developed,
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  and some say until your twenties, you know, depending on who you are.
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  And so we really are continuing to evolve as humans during our lifespan.
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  And so viability is a horribly vague term. It's one that's intended to sound
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  reasonable to the voter so they can get their support, and as soon as
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  they do, they'll be coming in and making the arguments that you pointed out,
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  which is because it's vague, we're going to argue that it's all the
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  way through birth because that baby can can go out and feed itself and get
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  in the car and drive the work. Last question for you your reaction on
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  the decision by the court to allow the marijuana bill to our proposal to go
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  to the ballot as well. I'm concerned does there need to be legislative action
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  protecting children from secondhand smoke? I think that's where again, and it's always
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  true. These proponents they drafted and I'll call it cleverly deceptive, and yeah,
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  certainly in the case in the abortion amendment, but also in the marijuana
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  where you read it seems reasonable enough if you check the yes box in thirty
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  seconds, and you've just enshrined in the constitution things that have a lot of
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  unintended consequences. That is one of them. Can I smoke in the elevator?
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  Can I smoke on a park where a kid's playing on a slide,
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  All these kinds of things that Governor's pointed this out. It's something that people
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  need wake up to, and we're going to have to educate people. And
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  the only way you beat these things is by really educating voters before they walk
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  in. Because they're written by the proponents. It's all rainbows and unicorns and
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  seems so reasonable that you can get behind it. It's designed that way.
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  It's poll tested, focus grouped to pass. And you're right, this has
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  got no restrictions on the use in public, and they can sit there and
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  smoke right next to my four year old and my two year old, and
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  there's nothing I can do about it, because it's now a constitutional right,
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  mister Speaker. Thank you for your service to the state of Florida, and
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  thank you for your service to our country long before that. And you are
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  welcome here anytime, whether you're in office or not. Thanks Preston, I
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  always enjoy it. Thank you, sir, Thank you, Florida Speaker of
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  the House. Currently Paul Renner, he'll be handing the gavel over, but
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  still remain speaker for a little bit. Good man served our country, faithfully
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  serves our state now and proud to have him here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott