NetChoice Sues Virginia Over Social-Media Age-Verification Law

Nov. 17, 2025, 9:59 PM UTC

NetChoice LLC, a trade group representing major internet providers, filed a lawsuit Monday challenging Virginia’s new law imposing parental-consent and age-verification requirements on social-media platforms.

The lawsuit comes five months after the US Supreme Court upheld a Texas law requiring porn sites to verify user age, and three months after the high court allowed Mississippi to enforce a law imposing age-verification requirements on social-media sites while a NetChoice lawsuit challenging that law proceeds.

Social-media platforms Bluesky and Nextdoor Inc. announced shortly after that ruling that they would begin blocking all IP addresses located within Mississippi as a result of the ...

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