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Supreme Court Won’t Halt Mississippi
Law Requiring Social Media Age-Verification

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Posted By: earlybird, 8/14/2025 3:35:29 PM

The U.S. Supreme Court on Aug. 14 declined to block a Mississippi law restricting minors’ access to social media platforms. The court did not explain its new ruling in NetChoice LLC v. Fitch. NetChoice, a trade association for internet companies, filed an emergency application last month after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit lifted a federal district court’s injunction that shielded several platforms from the law’s requirements. NetChoice argues the state law violates First Amendment free speech protections.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Rotten in Denmark 8/14/2025 6:46:37 PM (No. 1990763)
The word “reasonable” is open to interpretation. Asking a question as in “ Are you “X” or older may be enough. If not what then, drivers license, birth certificate, notarized statement? This may open a Pandora’s box of litigation.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: chumley 8/14/2025 8:43:27 PM (No. 1990787)
All infringements on liberty start as very reasonable sounding measures. Often they sell it as "for the children", which is always a lie. Then they will add more and more restrictions, just a little at a time, until we cant even look at Lucianne without proving who we are, where we are, and a whole lot of other irrelevant information. But its ok. It will make the children safer.
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