SCOTUS Precedent Shades California’s Internet Safety Injunction

California’s first-in-the-nation child internet safety law was again before a panel of federal appeals court judges Wednesday, who are faced with applying the US Supreme Court’s most recently internet speech precedent.

The three-judges for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will decide whether to overturn at California’s urging a preliminary injunction won by the tech industry trade group NetChoice LLC last year and allow the state’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act to take effect.

That law, first passed by the California legislature in 2022, regulates how websites and social media platforms collect, store, and use personal data ...