California's New Social Media Law Invites Expensive Lawsuits
Instead of trusting parents to manage their families, lawmakers from both parties prefer to empower the Nanny State.
Instead of trusting parents to manage their families, lawmakers from both parties prefer to empower the Nanny State.
Local hostility to free speech may become a global problem.
The American Sunlight Project contends that researchers are being silenced by their critics.
The News2Share cofounder is revolutionizing news coverage.
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Ethan Blevins of the Pacific Legal Foundation explains why. I myself have made similar arguments.
"I am not in the newsroom," the embattled NPR chieftain said over and over again.
The author of The Anxious Generation argues that parents, schools, and society must keep kids off of social media.
An interview with Consumer Choice Center Deputy Director Yaël Ossowski.
The push to regulate social media content infringes on rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment.
Fight back through better information and discourse, not by empowering the government.
If adopted by the Supreme Court, Prof. Candeub's approach would be a grave menace to freedom of speech.
Teens who use social media heavily also spend the most in-person time with friends.
From struggle sessions to cancel culture, the story depicts the terrors of surveillance authoritarianism.
Only 22 of the 476 studies in The Anxious Generation contain data on either heavy social media use or serious mental issues among adolescents, and none have data on both.
"It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will," he claimed.
A new survey highlights how fear-based parenting drives phone-based childhoods.
Prof. Hamburger continues to conflate coercion and voluntary choice.
Prof. Hamburger is wrong to argue that the use of the word "abridgment" implies that noncoercive government persuasion directed at social media firms violates the First Amendment.
The law would require platforms to use invasive measures to prevent most teenagers under 16 from making social media accounts and bar all minors from sexually explicit sites.
The problem is the users, not the apps.
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The Biden administration’s social media meddling went far beyond "information" and "advice."
If partisans have one thing in common, it's confirmation bias.
The justices established guidelines for determining whether that is true in any particular case.
The government is entitled to try to persuade social media to take down posts, but not to coerce them to do so.
Several justices seemed concerned that an injunction would interfere with constitutionally permissible contacts.
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The newspaper portrays the constitutional challenge to the government's social media meddling as a conspiracy by Donald Trump's supporters.
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Instead of freeing Americans from censorship, the TikTok bill would tighten the U.S. government's control over social media.
Another blow to the idea that algorithms are driving our political dysfunction.
Even as they attack the Biden administration's crusade against "misinformation," Missouri and Louisiana defend legal restrictions on content moderation.
"Laws like this don't solve the problems they try to address but only make them worse," says a Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression attorney.
A new bill would ban TikTok and give the president power to declare other social media apps off limits.
"People are not in politics for truth-seeking reasons," argues the data journalist and author of On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything.
A law forcing kids off social media sites is still likely coming to Florida.
"It is immoral that in a poor country like ours," the Argentine president said, "the government spends the people's money to buy the will of journalists."
The First Amendment restricts governments, not private platforms, and respects editorial rights.
Supreme Court arguments about two social media laws highlight a dangerous conflation of state and private action.
Maybe the problem for teens isn't screens, but what they are replacing.
The Supreme Court seems inclined to recognize that content moderation is protected by the First Amendment.