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Court Dismisses School Districts’ Lawsuits Over Social Media “Addiction”–In re Social Media Cases

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There are two critically important cases over “social media addiction” pending in California state court and as an MDL in the federal Northern District of California. Today’s post focuses on the social media defendants’ efforts to dismiss the parallel lawsuits by the school districts.

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2023 Quick Links: Social Media

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To piggyback on the editorial board analogy, if the newspaper itself had published an account of its editorial policies and decisions, and it turned out to be potentially fraudulent in some way, it would not chill the newspaper’s exercise of editorial control to investigate whether the newspaper’s public statements on that topic were false.

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A Short Explainer of Why California’s Social Media Addiction Bill (AB 2408) Is Terrible

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Today, I’m covering AB 2408, a performative “protect kids online” bill that kick kids off social media entirely and ruin the Internet for adults too. Age and identity authentication have numerous downsides and tradeoffs, including creating privacy and security risks for minors.

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Texas Enacts Social Media Censorship Law to Benefit Anti-Vaxxers & Spammers

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Florida made a splash enacting its social media censorship bill SB 7072 , only to have a federal district court immediately enjoin it. the Texas legislature tried to one-up Florida with HB 20 , its own social media censorship bill. Undeterred by Florida’s futility (and perhaps envious of it?), If not, why not?

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2H 2022 Quick Links, Part 1 (Marketing, Privacy)

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Marketing. * 2, 2022): Nor does personal jurisdiction arise out of the Film Defendants’ so-called “advertising strategy,” which allegedly “featured a significant push on social media[ ] targeting Washington, DC residents via Instagram and Facebook.” targeted social media advertising. Comptroller , No.

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Catching Up on the 11th Circuit Appeal in NetChoice v. Moody Over Florida’s Social Media Censorship Law

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That is akin to defending a censorship regime as regulating the conduct of writing or publishing. For example, over the past few years, they published several essays that seemingly celebrated and advocated for clipping the First Amendment’s wings (I unfavorably critiqued one of those).

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City Government Can’t Remove Off-Topic Comments to Its Social Media Account–Kimsey v. Sammamish

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Prescreening won’t fix that; and the ability to pick-and-choose comments to publish might exacerbate censorial tendencies. Thus, I think most government-operated online commenting venues, especially on social media, will be characterized as designated public forums–with all of the legal baggage that attaches to that status.