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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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Court Enjoins the Utah “Minor Protection in Social Media Act”–NetChoice v. Reyes

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Utah’s Minor Protection in Social Media Act contains two major provisions. First, it requires social media companies to conduct age assurance of their users to a 95% accuracy rate, along with an appellate process for misclassified users. Utah argued that the law doesn’t suppress any specific topic.

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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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Big Ruling for Free Speech: Most of Florida’s Social Media Censorship Law (SB 7072) Remains Enjoined–NetChoice v. Attorney General

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The opinion holds that the key parts of Florida’s social media censorship law (SB 7072) likely violate the First Amendment and should remain enjoined. ” The opinion also highlights the madness of the Fifth Circuit allowing the Texas social media censorship law to take effect via a 1-line order. “S.B.

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

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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. “ Privacy. * ” * Williams v.

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Social Media, Creative Theft, and Copyright: What Every Independent Artist Needs to Know

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The Threat of Creative Theft Creative theft poses a significant challenge for independent artists, manifesting as the unauthorized appropriation of original works through reposts, remixes, and style imitations on social media platforms. Employ social media monitoring tools that alert you whenever your work appears on other platforms.