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#NetChoice
#NetChoice is suing #Virginia over a new law restricting #minors’ #socialmedia use to one hour per day. The lawsuit claims the law violates the #FirstAmendment by limiting access to #freespeech and poses #privacy and #security risks due to #ageverification requirements. NetChoice argues that such #restrictions are #unconstitutional and should be left to parents. https://www.theverge.com/news/822475/netchoice-virginia-lawsuit-social-media-time-limit-law?eicker.news #tech #media #news
CPH Daily Bulletin 10/14/2025
Newsom, siding with tech giants, vetoes online hate speech bill
US Supreme Court Greenlights Age Verification of All Social Media Users
The age verification government surveillance and censorship is only getting worse thanks to a Supreme Court ruling.
https://www.freezenet.ca/us-supreme-court-greenlights-age-verification-of-all-social-media-users/
#Censorship #LawAndTechnology #News #AgeVerification #court #lawsuit #NetChoice #ruling #SCOTUS #US
#Tech industry group sues #Arkansas over new #socialmedia #laws
> Arkansas is among several states that have been enacting restrictions on social media, prompted by concerns about the impact on children’s mental health. #NetChoice — whose members include #TikTok, #Facebook parent #Meta, and the social platform #X — challenged Arkansas’ 2023 #ageVerification #law for social media.
https://apnews.com/article/net-choice-arkansas-huckabee-sanders-a228cad0c8ed00e4be0b637e12b73f09
📄 EPIC submitted its fourth amicus brief in #NetChoice v. Bonta against tech industry group NetChoice’s attempt to overturn the #California Age-Appropriate Design Code: epic.org/epic-urges-n...
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Ohio's social media parental consent law for teens under 16 is officially blocked. A federal judge ruled it violates the First Amendment, siding with challengers like NetChoice. A big win for online free speech.
#Ohio #NetChoice #FirstAmendment
A bit of sanity from the U.S.: a federal court ruled in the NetChoice v. Griffin case that a particular implementation of #ageverification is unconstitutional because it restricts protected speech of adults online by requiring ID and blocks those who don't provide it.
#NetChoice Sues To Block Maryland's #KidsCode, Saying It Violates the #FirstAmendment - Slashdot
#maryland #privacy #ageverification
Almost two weeks in Pacific time, starting with Black Hat and ending with some family time in the Bay Area, should have ended at around 9 p.m. Sunday. But the line of thunderstorms that swept through the D.C. area and shut down ramp operations at Dulles for a chunk of the evening had other ideas, which is why we got a free tour of IAD during a two-hour wait for a gate and why I’m now typing this sentence from baggage claim after midnight Monday.
8/13/2024: How Hughes Network Systems could bring satellite terminal manufacturing down to Earth, Light Reading
I visited Hughes’ new factory the day before I flew out to Vegas for Black Hat two weeks ago, then wrote this piece on Monday to include some news about Hughes’ contract to manufacture terminals for the low-Earth-orbit satellite-broadband firm OneWeb that Hughes PR gave me in advance.
8/13/2024: Patreon to Creators: Sorry, We Have to Let Apple Take a Cut of In-App Support, PCMag
I could not have written this story the way I did had I not set up shop on Patreon over five years ago and supported other creators on that platform. Some definitions of journalistic ethics would call that being too close to the story, but sometimes there’s no replacement for lived experience in a subject.
Later that day, I followed up by writing a post for Patreon readers explaining that I was not going to eat Apple’s cut, which meant that they could choose between paying about 43 percent extra (an increase Patreon calculated to ensure that creators would earn the same from a patron regardless of where they signed up) or following my advice to sign up on the Web.
8/15/2024: Come Out and Play: An Oral History of the HFStival, Washingtonian
I enjoyed the hell out of revisiting some of my favorite RFK memories with Washingtonian’s Andrew Beaujon over a long phone interview in May. I also enjoyed seeing my one quote from that conversation follow extended testimony from musicians in some of my favorite D.C. indie-rock bands of that era: the Dismemberment Plan, Jawbox, Tuscadero and Velocity Girl.
8/15/2024: Ep 104 SmartTechCheck Podcast — HEB and Apple Pay, Google news, desktop PC thoughts, BlackHat, Mark Vena
I joined my industry-analyst friend’s podcast to share my thoughts on Black Hat and to compare notes with fellow tech scribes John Quain and Dwight Silverman.
8/16/2024: Court: Calif. Child-Safety Bill Turns Businesses Into ‘Censors for the State’, PCMag
One state’s law about online child safety getting blocked by a federal appeals court might not seem like national news, but California is a very large state and the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act has already inspired similar laws in other states and a bill that passed the Senate last month.
8/17/2024: Court Stops Disney-Fox-WBD ‘Venu’ Live Sports Service on Antitrust Grounds, PCMag
Friday gave me a second opportunity to digest a fairly lengthy court ruling and explain it to readers, this time one that halted the rollout of a sports streaming service on antitrust grounds.
#AgeAppropriateDesignCode #AppStore #AppStore30_ #BlackHat #Fubo #FuboTV #HughesNetworkSystems #MarkVena #NetChoice #OneWeb #Patreon #sportsStreaming #Venu
ICYMI: CDT’s Becca Branum argues in a recent blog post that the recent #SCOTUS ruling in Moody v. #NetChoice settles little on platform #transparency: https://cdt.org/insights/moody-v-netchoice-settles-little-on-platform-transparency/
The Supreme Court Just Supercharged Disinformation
Daily podcast: The Supreme Court Just Supercharged Disinformation
CDT’s Samir Jain in Roll Call discussing the #Netchoice decision and how #ContentModeration choices made by social media services are protected by both #Section230 and the #FirstAmendment. https://rollcall.com/2024/07/09/ruling-boosts-social-media-free-speech-protections-some-say/
@CenDemTech’s VP of Policy Samir Jain spoke with Texas’ KETR Radio about the recent #Netchoice decision that challenged the Texas and Florida social media laws. https://www.ketr.org/news/2024-07-02/u-s-supreme-court-rules-against-texas-social-media-laws
@CenDemTech’s Kate Ruane in the Washington Post on the recent #SCOTUS #Netchoice decision and its implications for #ContentModeration. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/02/netchoice-scotus-content-moderation-speech/
〝Today’s ruling makes clear there’s no social media exception to the First Amendment. The government has no business dictating to platforms what opinions they must host. The court rightly rejects the idea that lawmakers have more authority over speech online than they do offline. That’s a big win for free speech and a free internet.〞
https://www.thefire.org/news/fire-statement-moody-v-netchoice-and-netchoice-v-paxton
#1A #freeExpression #internet #Section230 #law #SCOTUS #Texas #Florida #NetChoice #platforms
Great to see this Washington Post piece from @willoremus that lines up with what we published yesterday in our @internetsociety response to the #NetChoice decision - that the Supreme Court upheld the right to content moderation: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2024/07/us-supreme-court-upholds-right-of-websites-to-moderate-content/
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📢💻 CDT experts, including FX Director Kate Ruane and VP of Policy Samir Jain will be analyzing implications of this ruling today. Read the full #SupremeCourt decision here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-277_d18f.pdf #SCOTUS #Netchoice
🚨 Breaking News: In a 9-0 decision in #NetChoice v. Moody & NetChoice v. Paxton, #SCOTUS sent the Texas & Florida social media laws back to the lower courts, but Justice Kagan’s majority opinion is a win for free expression 👇
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