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Spencer Cox: “We've passed some very important social media legislation in…”

Featuring: Spencer Cox, Republican | Governor of Utah

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Published | Video Starts at 08:21

I was in Australia a couple weeks ago, got to speak with the Minister of communications who was charged with implementing that ban on social media. I know other countries are looking at it as well. We've passed some very important social media legislation in Utah, the first of its kind in the country. Lots of states have followed along and are doing that now. Sadly, these social media companies are fighting against us. They're suing us to prevent us from implementing this and ours only. (08:21–08:28)

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