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INSANE: Netchoice - The Real Truth

Restricting Speech By Purportedly Protecting Children

Around the world, governments are censoring speech with the stated goal of shielding youth from online harms.

Reason

Ban on kids’ companion chatbots advanced by Senate committee

Providers of artificial intelligence companion chatbots would need to verify users’ ages and ban minors from the companions under a bill that advanced unanimously in a Senate committee Thursday. The Judiciary Committee voted 22-0 to approve the bill, which would make it a crime to knowingly provide a chatbot that…

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Family accounts would be mandated for kids in chatbots bill

A bipartisan Senate bill unveiled Tuesday would govern kids and teens’ use of artificial intelligence chatbots by leaning on parental controls and would prohibit chatbots from using minors’ data for targeted advertising. The bill comes ahead of a Senate Judiciary Committee markup this week of a separate bill meant to…

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Arizona Bill Would Make It a Felony for Parents To Bring Their Kids to Drag Shows

Yes, that includes drag queen story hour.

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Porn Sites Must Block VPNs To Comply With Indiana's Age-Verification Law, State Suggests in New Lawsuit

It's an insane—and frighteningly dystopian—interpretation of the law.

Reason

House online safety bills take narrower approach than Senate - Roll Call

House Republicans pushed child online safety bills as Democrats called them weak and voiced concerns about age verification requirements.

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Senators unveil bipartisan chatbot child safety bill - Roll Call

The bill would give enforcement power to DOJ and states for its disclosure requirements and ban on AI companions for children.

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Ted Cruz looks to advance Trump AI strategy with new framework - Roll Call

GOP Sen. Ted Cruz issues plan on AI regulation that could take on states' limits, which a White House official said can be "anti-innovation."

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Ninth Circuit Blocks Default Restrictions on "Like Counts" for Minors' Social Media Accounts, Upholds Default of "Private Mode"

From today's panel opinion in Netchoice, LLC v. Bonta, by Ninth Circuit Judge Ryan D. Nelson, joined by Judges Michael… The post Ninth Circuit Blocks Default Restrictions on "Like Counts" for Minors' Social Media Accounts, Upholds Default of "Private Mode" appeared first on Reason.com.

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Bluesky Blocks Mississippi Users

Age verification laws are already coming for Americans’ access to free speech.

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Apparent Massive Quotation/Citation Errors in Netchoice Expert's Report …

supporting Netchoice's challenge to the Louisiana social media age verification law. Netchoice is a trade association representing many tech companies, including Amazon, eBay, Google, Meta, Netflix, PayPal, and X.

Reason

What Matters On The Shadow Docket? The Merits or the Equities?

Justice Kavanaugh thought NetChoice would win on the merits, but "the balance of harms and equities" did not favor allowing the injunction to go into effect.

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Supreme Court allows Mississippi to require age verification for social media as states move to protect children online

At least 12 other states have enacted similar age verification laws, hoping to protect children from online harms

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'Woke' AI Is the Latest Threat to Free Speech

But not in the way you think

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Judge blocks Georgia's social media age verification law, citing free speech concerns

A federal judge is blocking Georgia's law requiring age verification for social media accounts

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Judge strikes down an Ohio law limiting kids’ use of social media as unconstitutional

A federal judge has permanently struck down an Ohio law that would have required children and teens under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps

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VanDerStock is NetChoice Redux: A Sharply-Divided Court Threads The Needle With A "Facial Challenge" Analysis

The Court may have overruled Chevron, but it has just inadvertently created a far more powerful deference doctrine with Salerno, all in service of narrowly reversing the Fifth Circuit.

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Study: Age-Verification Laws Don't Work

At least not if the goal is keeping minors from viewing porn.

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Senate tries again on thorny issue of kids online safety - Roll Call

A bipartisan Senate bill to ban social media access for kids younger than 13 is facing pushback from digital rights and tech trade groups.

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'Human Trafficking' Sting Yields 547 Arrests, but Only 1 for Human Trafficking

A(nother) look at how human trafficking panic gets made.

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Stargate: What is Trump’s new $500bn AI project?

AI giants join forces for a massive project aimed at growing technology in the United States.

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Trump's Latest Defeat Is One of Many Decisions That Suggest SCOTUS Won't Rubber-Stamp His Agenda

Despite some notable wins, the president-elect's overall track record shows he cannot count on a conservative Supreme Court to side with him.

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Stop Overprotecting the Children, Say Courts in Tennessee and California

Courts block laws regulating algorithms and online porn.

The Independent UK

Australia is banning social media for people under 16. Could this work elsewhere — or even there?

It is an ambitious social experiment of our moment in history

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'Let Parents Decide' What Kids Can Do Online, Argue Tech Groups in New Lawsuit

The groups are challenging a Florida law that bans some teens from social media.

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