NetChoice’s Leadership of Tech’s Legal Fights with States, States’ Call for Social Media Warning Labels & More

NetChoice Leads Tech’s Legal Battle Against State Regulation

Tech trade association NetChoice has become the chief litigator for the industry. In the last few years the organization has filed 10 lawsuits aimed at blocking new state laws relating mostly to social media and children’s online safety, and it has won temporary injunctions in nine cases, most recently in Utah, where a federal judge blocked implementation of SB 194 on the grounds that it likely violates the First Amendment.

More lawsuits could also be on the way, with the group having set up a litigation center for tech lawsuits in March 2023 and currently eyeing newly enacted laws in Florida (HB 3) and New York (SB 7694 and SB 7695). (PLURIBUS NEWS, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)

State AGs Call for Social Media Warning Labels

A bipartisan group of 42 state attorneys general sent a letter to congressional leaders calling on them to pass legislation requiring social media platforms to display a warning from the surgeon general that they may be harmful to youth, as proposed by Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. “Young people are facing a mental health crisis, which is fueled in large part by social media,” the letter stated. (HILL)

—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK

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