Digital Parenting

HB 186’s core provisions are unconstitutional and are already being litigated in other states. In addition, age-verification presents heightened threats to privacy and undermines the state’s interest in protecting the […]

WASHINGTON—Today, a group of Senators said they’d be reintroducing the incorrectly branded “Kids Online Safety Act.” Let’s be clear: this proposal is a speech code for the internet. It will […]

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NetChoice submitted testimony against SB 63, a bill targeted at social media platforms that would actually impose a digital age gate across a wide swath of the Internet beyond traditional […]

Concern about the state of free speech in Europe has reached the highest levels of the U.S. government, and differences between how America and the EU treat free and legal […]

SB 187 requires app stores to verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent for minors’ downloads and purchases. If enacted, this bill would almost certainly violate Alabamans’ First Amendment rights, […]

WASHINGTON—Today, a bill was introduced in Congress to force app stores to require minors and adults to submit sensitive personal information to access lawful, protected speech on digital tools—violating their […]

ATLANTA—Georgia’s government passed yet another unconstitutional law, this time violating its citizens’ First Amendment rights, compromising their security and their children’s digital safety, and stripping parents of their rights. Today, […]

Georgia SB 351 unconstitutionally restricts online free speech, compromises cybersecurity and undermines parental authority. By requiring identity verification for access to digital services, it violates First Amendment rights, as courts […]

HB 570 requires app stores to verify users’ ages, obtain parental consent for minors’ downloads and purchases and creates civil liability for app stores and developers who violate these requirements. […]

NetChoice’s memo outlines constitutional issues of Senate Bill 25-086‘s provisions requiring social media platforms to suspend and terminate user accounts for certain “subject uses.” We conclude that these provisions violate […]

NEW ORLEANS, La. — Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated NetChoice’s preliminary injunction against Mississippi’s age-verification law. Mississippi’s law conditions its citizens’ access to vast […]

HB 1275, which would ban social media for those under 16 and require age verification for all users, is unconstitutional and has already been struck down in similar forms in […]

CONTACT: PRESS@NETCHOICE.ORG COLUMBUS, Ohio—Today, a U.S. District Court in NetChoice v. Yost permanently struck down Ohio’s age verification law, which conditioned all Ohioans’ ability to access and publish information online […]

NetChoice sent a letter to Colorado Governor Jared Polis requesting he veto SB 25-086. Despite the noble intentions behind this legislation, the specifics of the bill would actually make it […]

HB 5830 would institute a similar internet speech code that has already been placed on hold or struck down as unconstitutional by multiple different courts. The bill would create a […]

HB 5291 creates an unconstitutional ID requirement for users to access speech online. Both the digital ID and the parental consent requirements violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, […]

HB 4901 requires app stores to verify users’ ages, obtain parental consent for minors’ downloads and purchases and creates civil liability for app stores and developers who violate these requirements. […]

SB 611 would amend Arkansas’ unconstitutional Social Media Safety Act by adding additional unconstitutional elements. While the bill fixes none of the elements ruled to be in violation of the […]

On March 31, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas delivered a powerful rebuke to government overreach, striking down Arkansas’s Act 689—the so-called “Social Media Safety […]