NetChoice Wins Order Blocking California Website Safety Law (1)

Tech industry trade association and lobbying group NetChoice LLC won a court order Thursday prohibiting California’s attorney general from enforcing the state’s first-in-the-nation law regulating how social media platforms collect and use data from minors.

Judge Beth Labson Freeman of the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that NetChoice, which represents tech giants including Meta Platforms Inc., Amazon.com Inc., and Google LLC, is likely to show that the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act violates the US Constitution’s First Amendment guarantee of free speech .

Freeman had previously granted an NetChoice’s injunction against the law ...