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Mississippi Online Age-Verification Law Blocked for Second Time
Mississippi can’t enforce its 2024 online age-verification law against Meta Platforms Inc., YouTube LLC, X Corp., and five other tech companies while a First Amendment suit challenging the law proceeds, a federal court ruled.
The law, HB 1126, requires social media platforms to receive parental permission before allowing minors to access their services, and to make “reasonable efforts” to verify a user’s age. NetChoice met its burden of showing the law wasn’t narrowly tailored to achieve the state’s goal of protecting children from harmful online content, a requirement to survive strict scrutiny under Supreme Court precedent, Ozerden said. That closer look was required under the US Supreme Court’s July 2024 holding in Moody v. NetChoice LLC, issued the same day as Ozerden’s initial injunction, where it clarified the facial-challenge framework for First Amendment claims, the Fifth Circuit said.
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