NetChoice’s Internet Law Win Hits Roadblock: California Brief

NetChoice Internet Law Win Hits Snag

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The tech industry trade group NetChoice, which has successfully challenged state internet age-verification laws around the country, hit a roadbump yesterday in its lawsuit against California’s first-in-the-nation child social media law.

The Ninth Circuit overturned large portions of a lower court’s injunction that had blocked all of the California Age-Appropriate Design Code, a 2022 statute signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom that regulates how internet platforms use and collect data on minors.

The ruling said NetChoice failed to show it would likely win its challenge to the law’s requirement that social media companies ...