Posted on 09/01/2023 2:13:11 AM PDT by RandFan
A federal judge temporarily blocked an Arkansas law that requires parental consent for children to create social media accounts.
District Judge Timothy L. Brooks of the Western District of Arkansas granted the preliminary injunction in response to a motion by Netchoice, a trade group for technology companies that has members including Facebook parent company Meta; TikTok; and X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
The law had been set to go into effect Friday.
“We’re pleased the court sided with the First Amendment and stopped Arkansas’ unconstitutional law from censoring free speech online and undermining the privacy of Arkansans, their families and their businesses as our case proceeds,” Chris Marchese, director of the NetChoice Litigation Center said in a statement. “We look forward to seeing the law struck down permanently.”
Utah became the first state to require parental consent for minors to open a social media account in March. The Utah law won’t go into effect until March 1, 2024.
Seems GOP lawmakers in some states are testing it to the limit.
Should they?
Now the courts need to apply this standard to the 2nd amendment.
Should they?
A cautious “yes”.
The article doesn’t talk about the law at all, just the preening of the plaintiffs.
Sounds like the law is to keep minors as minors under their parents jurisdiction. Not sure why this is a bad thing?
It’s depraved to let kids decide and tell the parents to stick it if they don’t like it. Yet parents will still be held fully responsible for what their kids do. Why not just let the kids decide to stay out all night?
If a parent can’t tell the kids no on something so destructive, what authority does a parent have left?
From some quick research it appears the law was blocked on technical issues, not as a 1st amendment issue. basically the law has exemptions that effectively nullify the laws actual intent.
This would be a problem as the law would not be enforced equally but instead capriciously.
Good law must have the capacity to be enforced fairly, consistently across all intended applications.
It reads more like a technical decision
Parents need to stop giving their kids “smart phones” at the age of 8.
These devices are not an acceptable babysitter!
Spend less money and spend more time with your kids!
There’s always the option of not paying for the kids internet access. No smartphone, no computer. That’ll slow things down for a while.
This is really about the state owning your children. And keeping you on the hook to pick up your child’s broken pieces.
“We’re coming for your children.”
The evil people want unfettered access to children’s minds. A kid can’t go get his own phone number or address, why is a “social media” account so important? They must expose kids to evil as soon as possible. There is no way there is any other explanation for this decision.
MINOR under parents jurisdiction SHOULD have controls.
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