Politico August 20, 2024
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Legislation aimed at protecting kids’ mental health online is on rocky ground following a federal appeals court decision last week that said a key section of a 2022 California law likely violated the First Amendment.
That law requires tech giants to vet their social media sites for dangers to kids and take steps to mitigate them. A panel of judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said forcing companies to decide what constitutes harmful content was tantamount to censorship, our Jeremy B. White and Josh Gerstein report.
“A disclosure regime that requires the forced creation and disclosure of highly subjective opinions about content-related harms to children is unnecessary for fostering a proactive environment...
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