California Kids’ Social Media Addiction Law Blocked by Court (1)

A federal judge fully blocked a California law designed to protect the state’s children from social media addiction until Feb. 1 while the case is pending in the Ninth Circuit, finding that First Amendment issues raised by the law are novel and difficult.

The court granted NetChoice’s motion for an injunction pending appeal of a Dec. 31 ruling that partially blocked the Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act, which regulates how minors access addictive, algorithm-operated “personalized feeds” on social media platforms.

Given that the law, officially known as SB 976, “can fundamentally reorient social media companies’ relationship with ...