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Judge allows California’s ban on addictive feeds for minors to go into effect


A federal judge has allowed California's ban on addictive feeds for minors to go into effect beginning January 1.

Late Tuesday evening, a federal judge blocked tech lobbying group NetChoice’s challenge to California’s recently enacted law, SB 976, which prohibits companies from serving “addictive feeds” to minors. The effect of this decision is that beginning Wednesday, companies will be prohibited from serving an addictive feed to a California-based user they know to be a minor, except with explicit parental consent. In November, NetChoice, whose members include Meta, Google, and X, sued to enjoin SB 976 in its entirety, arguing the law violated the First Amendment.

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